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“Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.”

Thinking Believe Wells Country States Done America I Believe Challenges Greater Generations Groups Integrity Tendencies Disagree Possessed Tenacity Entitlement Nostalgic Wholeheartedly

Author:Jon Stewart

“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”

Ifs Men Should Heart Guy Given Common Cases Greater Perception Stress Philosopher Common Sense Tendencies Ideology Righteous Bad Guys Discouraged Worldview Insufficient Greater Good Devalue

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.”

Giving Social Lines Class Greater Growing Economic Tendencies Maps Segregation Emerging Marrying Permanence Sorting

Book:Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

Source: Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

“In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.”

Source: Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904

“There’s a tendency for young people to get discouraged and frustrated easily. But don’t be afraid to fail. In many ways, we learn so much more from our failures than our successes. Remind yourself that failure is nothing more than a means to a greater end. Bide your time, learn from your mistakes, and lead by example. If you believe in what you’re doing, it will show.”

People Ifs Way Believe Mean Ends Shows Young Mistake Greater Failing Example Tendencies Frustrated Discouraged If You Believe Learn From Your Mistakes Afraid To Fail

Author:Anna Maria Chavez

“I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.”

People Thinking Writing Trying Mind Kind Courses Greater Mystery Serious Degrees Findings Who You Are Profound Tendencies Companion Course Of Life

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future.”

Knows World Turns Situation Greater Balance Stress Pressure Tendencies Executives Boss

Author:Srikumar Rao

“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.”

Mind Saws Greater Constitution Tendencies Poetry Is Faculty Indigenous

Book:Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

Source: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics. Where the Second Law expressed an irreversible progression toward increased entropy and disorder, life evolves continually higher levels of order. The still more remarkable fact is that this evolutionary drive to greater and greater order also is irreversible. Evolution does not go backward.”

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works