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“There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.”

Trying Turns Down And Presses Tendencies Release Dumb Slogans Paragraph Press Release

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.”

Art Turns Theory Tendencies Preference

Book:i lost it at the movies

Source: i lost it at the movies

“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

“If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.”

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“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

“Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?”

Mind Heart Turns Religious Tendencies

Author:Robert Burns

“But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?”

Mind Heart Enough Turns Religious Atheism Dear Positive Atheism Tendencies Nonsense Bye Nonsensical Cunninghams

Book:Rhymer Rab: an anthology of poems and prose

Source: Rhymer Rab: an anthology of poems and prose

“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”

Turns Natural Marriage Wife Filled Instinct Tendencies Dismay

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.”

People Book Moving Turns Challenges Deals Television Tvs Pages Flow Tendencies Description Accuracy Precision

Author:Brian Greene

“When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.”

Feels Problem Turns Focus Institutions Threat Tendencies Internals Inward Hostility Slipping Slipping Away

Author:David Brooks