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Law enforcement tends to have the same problems that the military has in making women feel valued and welcome, a lot of law enforcement agencies have a macho ethos that can make it harder for women to feel like they belong. – Stanford University	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The appetite among private equity firms for these assets tends to be greater because there is less payer reimbursement risk and the growth opportunities are so great. – James Clark	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When someone starts focusing on something, it tends to trend better, what made it happen? We don't know. – Kristi Watterberg	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. – Richard DeVos	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon). – Harold Rosenberg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. – Raoul Vaneigem	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind. – William Ellery Channing	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. – Maria Montessori	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. – G.H. Hardy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton, 1887	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation. – John Dalberg	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. – Paul Valery	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. – Carl Jung	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. – Sidney Madwed	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism. – Richard T. Ely	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. – Carl Sagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Law enforcement tends to have the same problems that the military has in making women feel valued and welcome, a lot of law enforcement agencies have a macho ethos that can make it harder for women to feel like they belong.

– Stanford University

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The appetite among private equity firms for these assets tends to be greater because there is less payer reimbursement risk and the growth opportunities are so great.

– James Clark

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When someone starts focusing on something, it tends to trend better, what made it happen? We don't know.

– Kristi Watterberg

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

– Richard DeVos

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

– Harold Rosenberg

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

– Raoul Vaneigem

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

– Laurence J. Peter

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

– William Ellery Channing

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

– John Updike

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

– Malcolm Muggeridge

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

– Maria Montessori

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

– Aldo Leopold