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“The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liberties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.”

Has Beens Matter Facts Anxiety Concern Bases Constitution Tendencies Ties Impatient Candor Vindictive

Book:New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal

Source: New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal

“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.”

People Thinking World Facts Dies Views Effort Opposites Prejudice Tendencies Conform

Book:Mortals and Others

Source: Mortals and Others

“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.”

Persons Soul Facts Suffering Natural Failing Effects Treats Assuming Tendencies Misfortunes Unfortunate Catastrophe Vocation

Book:War and the Iliad

Source: War and the Iliad

“Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.”

War Facts Class Break Gone Economic Conflict Benefits Spring Connections Tendencies Barriers Horizon Breaking Down Intercourse

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.”

Men Whole Facts Strong Animal Depends Civilization Tendencies Traits Rivalry

Author:William James

“Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”

Facts Pain Happiness Illness Disappointment Heal Tendencies Mars Norm One Love Discomfort Disturbance Continuum

Book:The continuum concept

Source: The continuum concept