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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power
Lord Acton

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Action
Loius A. Allen

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.
Nature
Bernoulli

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Love
Smiley Blanton

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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Immortality
Herb Caen

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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Men and Women
Colette Dowling

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Government
William J. Durant

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
Uncategorised
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Books - Reading
Edward M. Forster

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Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.
Inertia
J. G. Gallimore

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Arts and Artists
Andre Gide

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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
Punctuality
Edgar Watson Howe

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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Understanding
Carl Jung

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The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
Influence
Iain Macleod

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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Fiction
Andre Maurois

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Power
Laurence J. Peter

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.
Change
Source Unknown

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

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!
Fame
John Wolcot

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun