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“One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.”

People Kind Littles Fall Easy Attitude Trouble Satisfied Tendencies Maturity Old People Therapeutic Reassuring

Book:I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home

Source: I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home

“The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”

People Way Real Evil Attitude Technology Objects Produce Lonely Tendencies Objectivity

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever to compromise with it, then the American press [characterizes him] as a radical, as an extremist someone who's irresponsible, or as a rabble rouser or someone who doesn't rationalize in dealing with the problem.”

Men Shows Problem America Black Attitude Presses Injustice Tendencies Compromise Radical Irresponsible Extremist Rationalize Uncompromising

Author:Malcolm X

“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”

World Way Wells Stills Whole Would Be Attitude Behavior Islam Tolerance Whole World Tendencies Afghanistan Profitable Extremist Taliban Insisting

Author:Ahmad Shah Massoud

“I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.”

Believe I Believe Attitude Financial Fats Tendencies Knees

Book:I Didn't Come Here to Argue

Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue

“Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.”

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.”

“I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.”

Ifs Kind Character School Form Strong Attitude Locals Tendencies Attachment Very Strong Countryside My Attitude

Author:Ibn Warraq

“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.”

“When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive at new judgments. These attitudes are brought into relation with many others, including our standing tendencies to think and feel in particular ways, and we try to fit our psychological capacities and responses together.”

“The amalgam of psychological attitudes we form is the synthetic complex. It may fall apart quite quickly as further reflection or further experience bears on it, and we may revert to our former judgments, feelings and tendencies.”

May Feelings Form Fall Attitude Bears Judgment Reflection Complexes Tendencies Psychological Former Falling Apart Synthetic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.”

Feels Use Might Pain Spirit Sin Deals Attitude Capable Complaining Tendencies Revealing Sour Lemons Chronic Pain

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.”

“As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.”

Simple Attitude Tendencies Formulas Elites Adequate Public Education

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present dictatorship in Egypt. He might start to cozy up to the Gulf dictators as a way of trying to scare the Iranians. This could lead to a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf.”

Way Trying Might Attitude Trump Russia Shoulders Tendencies Scare Dictatorship Dictator Egypt Confrontation Persian Cozy Naval Persian Gulf

Author:Lawrence Davidson