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People usually think according to their inclinations, ...

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Quote by Francis Bacon about nation, people

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Quote by John Adams about state, things

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for...

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, man

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no...

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Quote by James Joyce about quiet, time

Young people are threatened by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about work, advertising, use, people

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Quote by Erich Fromm about beauty, man, nature, human imperfections

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about opinion, angels, hate, pain, pleasure, happiness, good, good luck, love, people

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural...

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton about authority

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