Propensity
The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
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Propensity Quotations
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Thorstein Veblen
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Benjamin Haydon
Propensity Translations
propensity in German is Neigung
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