Tendency
Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
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Tendency Quotations
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill
Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
David Ogilvy
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Tendency Translations
tendency in Afrikaans is lus
tendency in Danish is tendens
tendency in Dutch is wilsbeschikking, gesteldheid, aanleg
tendency in Finnish is taipumus
tendency in French is tendance, aptitude, inclinaison
tendency in German is Tendenz {f}, Tendenz, Neigung {f}, Absicht {f}
tendency in Italian is declinazione
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