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We have a tendency to want to blame one person, or credit one person, when in reality these are complex systems that rise and fall for often complex, random reasons that we don’t have the ability to explain – but it’s easier to say, ‘It was Joe Schmoe over there,’. – Jeff Asher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The tendency is to ignore and exclude, and that’s a violation of human rights. – Chauncia Willis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Trump-ism is the dominant tendency in Republican foreign policy and it’s isolationist, its unilateralist, its amoral. – Richard Haass	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think there’s a tendency to say that consumers are just wasting money and complaining about prices, and I think that’s not the best way to think about it, i think that during the hardest portions of the pandemic, people realized what was important to them. – Cait Lamberton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Never express too much love, affection, care to someone, because it is human tendency to underestimate anything that free of cost. – Daniel cherry	added by danielc.59492 1 year ago
Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power, it also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA -- a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves. – Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think people need to be cognizant that elections have consequences. People have a tendency to vote on issues that matter most to them, and hopefully if we throw a spotlight on this once again, that people will come out and vote and vote for gun legislation that is so sorely needed from coast to coast. – Colleen Jenn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The tendency that humans try to destroy ourselves is the greatest danger. – Jonathan Jiang	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I find Judge Jackson to be a person of exceptionally good character, respected by her peers, and someone who has worked hard to achieve her current position, however, her record is overwhelming in its lack of a steady judicial philosophy and a tendency to achieve outcomes in spite of what the law requires or common sense would dictate. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't like what's happening on the ground over there. And I've seen what happens when civilians are caught in the middle of a war, and I found that the Russians have a tendency — when they can't win — to basically burn bridges. – Matthew Parker/Facebook	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a tendency to want to ban certain things, the real question should be, how do we look at these situations and ask what other alternatives could be used to achieve the outcome... how should training change and what alternatives should we be looking at to achieve a successful outcome ? Those are questions situations like this raise. – Chuck Wexler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's an extremely negative reaction, such as annoyance or disgust, mostly to specific sounds such as chewing, clicking, tapping and whispering, there is a tendency for people who experience synesthesia and misophonia to also experience Super Bowl ASMR, so there is some overlap here. – Richard Craig	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it will generate some more caution among entrepreneurs, but for the most part, human nature being what it is, there is still going to be a tendency to exaggerate, especially when you know you might not get funded if you don't, and I don't think it will change many investors' attitudes. – Richard Greenfield	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Every time the industry goes after a new name for something and tries to pivot, something new inevitably comes out of it. It's just not clear yet what it will be, i think one has to be really critical of this tendency and call out what is just marketing and hype, which is a large part of it, whilst remaining open-minded to the fact that something new does emerge. – Gideon Lichfield	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our capacity for social relationships is sorely tired, there is a growing tendency to withdraw, to do it all by ourselves, to stop making an effort to encounter others and do things together. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The hypotheses range from a greater propensity to homemade remedies, like medicinal herbs used in peasant tradition ; there are those who assume a more marked anti-authoritarian tendency than elsewhere, for historical reasons ; but I think more practical hypotheses should also be considered, such as logistical difficulties, for those who live at the bottom of a mountain valley, going to a city vaccination center can mean wasting a lot of time. – Thomas Widmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The negative consequence of what we're seeing now is the tendency for people to paint all police officers with the same brush, we've allowed the few to define the many and that's a consequence, but in the long run, it's going to benefit the profession because we have to rid our ranks of individuals who just don't belong there. – Charles Ramsey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have seen consecutive years, most recently the last five years, of some really extreme fire seasons. The centralized areas where those extreme conditions are might change like this year, we are seeing them in the middle of the Northern Rockies area into Montana. The focus area does shift but the tendency for us to see extreme fire seasons does remain the same. – Robyn Heffernan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We’ve all been there before and we know people have a tendency to wait, ... Please prepare now for the entire hurricane season. – Broward Mayor Steve Geller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This tendency to hold on to the poorly performing securities can end up continuing to cost the investor, investors often make decisions based on gut instinct, but that can really lead them astray. – Lisa Kramer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think the most important thing to point out is the fact that there was a tendency on the part of the Rouhani government, figures such as Foreign Minister Zarif, to want to improve ties with Western Europe or with the United States. – Mehrdad Khonsari	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is a tendency within White Christian nationalism, to want to believe these kinds of conspiracies, because I think it reinforces this idea of an us versus them, the problem is, the people who are feeding that fear, have an incentive to keep stoking that fear because people keep clicking, and people keep listening. – Samuel Perry	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When we think about the changes that the pandemic has brought in our lives in the past year, there's a tendency to view this as exceptional or unprecedented, where, in fact, there have been previous times where Americans have found themselves with an unexpected amount of time on their hands, the best analogy, really, is the Great Depression. – Stephen Mihm	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Impaired people have a tendency of crashing, so if you have a situation like this one, where you have a single-vehicle crash, with out-of-the-ordinary type circumstances, that should trigger the first responder to inquire further and to explore impairment as a possible cause of the collision. – Jonathan Cherney	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

We have a tendency to want to blame one person, or credit one person, when in reality these are complex systems that rise and fall for often complex, random reasons that we don’t have the ability to explain – but it’s easier to say, ‘It was Joe Schmoe over there,’.

– Jeff Asher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tendency is to ignore and exclude, and that’s a violation of human rights.

– Chauncia Willis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Trump-ism is the dominant tendency in Republican foreign policy and it’s isolationist, its unilateralist, its amoral.

– Richard Haass

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there’s a tendency to say that consumers are just wasting money and complaining about prices, and I think that’s not the best way to think about it, i think that during the hardest portions of the pandemic, people realized what was important to them.

– Cait Lamberton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Never express too much love, affection, care to someone, because it is human tendency to underestimate anything that free of cost.

– Daniel cherry

added by danielc.59492
1 year ago

Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power, it also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA -- a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves.

– Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think people need to be cognizant that elections have consequences. People have a tendency to vote on issues that matter most to them, and hopefully if we throw a spotlight on this once again, that people will come out and vote and vote for gun legislation that is so sorely needed from coast to coast.

– Colleen Jenn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tendency that humans try to destroy ourselves is the greatest danger.

– Jonathan Jiang

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I find Judge Jackson to be a person of exceptionally good character, respected by her peers, and someone who has worked hard to achieve her current position, however, her record is overwhelming in its lack of a steady judicial philosophy and a tendency to achieve outcomes in spite of what the law requires or common sense would dictate.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't like what's happening on the ground over there. And I've seen what happens when civilians are caught in the middle of a war, and I found that the Russians have a tendency — when they can't win — to basically burn bridges.

– Matthew Parker/Facebook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a tendency to want to ban certain things, the real question should be, how do we look at these situations and ask what other alternatives could be used to achieve the outcome... how should training change and what alternatives should we be looking at to achieve a successful outcome ? Those are questions situations like this raise.

– Chuck Wexler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's an extremely negative reaction, such as annoyance or disgust, mostly to specific sounds such as chewing, clicking, tapping and whispering, there is a tendency for people who experience synesthesia and misophonia to also experience Super Bowl ASMR, so there is some overlap here.

– Richard Craig

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it will generate some more caution among entrepreneurs, but for the most part, human nature being what it is, there is still going to be a tendency to exaggerate, especially when you know you might not get funded if you don't, and I don't think it will change many investors' attitudes.

– Richard Greenfield

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every time the industry goes after a new name for something and tries to pivot, something new inevitably comes out of it. It's just not clear yet what it will be, i think one has to be really critical of this tendency and call out what is just marketing and hype, which is a large part of it, whilst remaining open-minded to the fact that something new does emerge.

– Gideon Lichfield

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our capacity for social relationships is sorely tired, there is a growing tendency to withdraw, to do it all by ourselves, to stop making an effort to encounter others and do things together.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The hypotheses range from a greater propensity to homemade remedies, like medicinal herbs used in peasant tradition ; there are those who assume a more marked anti-authoritarian tendency than elsewhere, for historical reasons ; but I think more practical hypotheses should also be considered, such as logistical difficulties, for those who live at the bottom of a mountain valley, going to a city vaccination center can mean wasting a lot of time.

– Thomas Widmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The negative consequence of what we're seeing now is the tendency for people to paint all police officers with the same brush, we've allowed the few to define the many and that's a consequence, but in the long run, it's going to benefit the profession because we have to rid our ranks of individuals who just don't belong there.

– Charles Ramsey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have seen consecutive years, most recently the last five years, of some really extreme fire seasons. The centralized areas where those extreme conditions are might change like this year, we are seeing them in the middle of the Northern Rockies area into Montana. The focus area does shift but the tendency for us to see extreme fire seasons does remain the same.

– Robyn Heffernan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’ve all been there before and we know people have a tendency to wait, ... Please prepare now for the entire hurricane season.

– Broward Mayor Steve Geller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This tendency to hold on to the poorly performing securities can end up continuing to cost the investor, investors often make decisions based on gut instinct, but that can really lead them astray.

– Lisa Kramer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the most important thing to point out is the fact that there was a tendency on the part of the Rouhani government, figures such as Foreign Minister Zarif, to want to improve ties with Western Europe or with the United States.

– Mehrdad Khonsari

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is a tendency within White Christian nationalism, to want to believe these kinds of conspiracies, because I think it reinforces this idea of an us versus them, the problem is, the people who are feeding that fear, have an incentive to keep stoking that fear because people keep clicking, and people keep listening.

– Samuel Perry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When we think about the changes that the pandemic has brought in our lives in the past year, there's a tendency to view this as exceptional or unprecedented, where, in fact, there have been previous times where Americans have found themselves with an unexpected amount of time on their hands, the best analogy, really, is the Great Depression.

– Stephen Mihm

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Impaired people have a tendency of crashing, so if you have a situation like this one, where you have a single-vehicle crash, with out-of-the-ordinary type circumstances, that should trigger the first responder to inquire further and to explore impairment as a possible cause of the collision.

– Jonathan Cherney

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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