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tendency to

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. Tim Berners-Lee

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. Reinhold Niebuhr

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. Marc Chagall

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. Maurice Allais

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