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We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
by Jerry Stiller (Comedian, American , born in 1927) keywords: away, get, hang, hanging, lot, managed, married, run, strength, tendency, things, today, together , tough Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
by Josiah Strong (Clergyman, American , born in 1847) keywords: assert, before, here, inherent, itself, long, mighty, millions, states, stock, strengthened, tendency, thousand, united , will A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
by William Graham Sumner (Businessman, American , born in 1840) keywords: according, decline, dissolution, drunkard, fitness, gutter, him, just, nature, ought, process, removes, set, she, survived, tendency, their, things, upon, usefulness, where , which It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
by William Graham Sumner (Businessman, American , born in 1840) keywords: burdens, class, classes, crush, each, extreme, force, into, middle, only, organization, out, social, society, tendency , two The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
by Ichiro Suzuki (Athlete, Japanese , born in 1973) keywords: character, emotions, feelings, japanese, kill, own, strong, suppress, tendency , their No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
by William Howard Taft (President, American , born in 1857) keywords: conduct, desire, down, human, lay, nature, other, quite, rules, strong , tendency In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
by Gene Tierney (Actor, American , born in 1920) keywords: americans, among, away, europe, happened, ii, leading, many, months, nothing, ocean, seemed, talk, tendency, threatening, trouble, up, very, war , world I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
by Michael Tolkinkeywords: change, could, into, meet, tendency, them, treat, water, wine, writer , yet I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
by Richard Wagner (Composer, German , born in 1813) keywords: big, chain, cheap, deprive, efforts, factories, fast, growing, hate, joy, lead, machines, men, plan, products, tendency, their, them , will That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
by Herschel Walker (Athlete, American , born in 1962) keywords: accountable, always, else, himself, life, live, person, society, someone, tendency, think, today, want , yourself This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
by Josiah Warren (Inventor, American , born in 1798) keywords: away, built, circulating, consequently, corruption, cruelty, crushing, degrees, finally, fraud, imposition, iniquity, lessen, masses, medium, money, natural, powerless, render, sweep, tendency, upon, use , value The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
by Bob Wells (Athlete , born in 1966) topics: Age keywords: age, body, bone, form, man, meet, old, opinions, pleasant, rare, say, tendency , whose I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
by Gene Wilder (Actor, American , born in 1933) keywords: funny, get, know, laugh, make, maudlin, right, tendency, towards, track, wife, write , yes I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
by John Sharp Williams (Politician, American , born in 1854) keywords: another, bay, cynical, dog, grown, listen, long, may, moon, rather, senate, service, six, sometimes, stay, tendency, than, think , years As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
by Ricky Williams (Athlete, American , born in 1977) keywords: able, again, been, being, beings, buy, ever, go, human, long, make, property, something, sure, tendency, things, think, tie, time, up, want , working And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
by Chauncey Wright (Philosopher, American , born in 1830) keywords: any, civilization, combined, energies, genius, individual, inherent, men, owe, progress, rather, science, tendency , than The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
by Arthur Young (Writer, English , born in 1741) keywords: imply, intending, know, lack, machinery, machines, man, mechanism, mere, nothing, philosophers, purpose, shows, talk, tendency, understanding, well , without
