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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Fisher Ames
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We don't know how this is going to impact the propensity to file bankruptcy.

Samah Haggag
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The height of progress, when people's propensity to strive for what is dispensable begins to interfere with what is indispensable, is called luxury.

Immanuel Kant
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He has a criminal history in Atlanta for failure to appear. That shows his propensity not to comply with a court order.

Lorrain Croy
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They do have a propensity for inflicting very serious bites if they do bite.

Cheryl Conway
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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

Thorstein Veblen
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We ... have very, very low propensity to enlist, both on part of our young Americans and likewise on the part of influencers, ... parents, coaches, other adults whose opinions matter to our young 17-to-24 year olds.

Michael Rochelle
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There is no question that there is a greater propensity to travel across all segments -- leisure, group and business.

Scott Berman
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They have a propensity to roll, and when they roll they have a tendency to maim or kill people.

Jason Walker
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It never even crossed my mind that he had a propensity toward violence.

Judd Burstein
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There's such a low propensity to innovate. The problem is that most buyers perceive any innovation as risky, and they don't get any benefit from a success.

Aaron Gellman
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

Thorstein Veblen
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Benjamin Haydon
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

Hitopadesa
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The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.

Ron Fairly
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Given the drugs (Lewis) had taken and his propensity for violence, it made sense that Joe took a gun with him.

Roger Falk
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Ambrose Bierce
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Customers who score high propensity are typically approximately two-and-a-half times more likely to buy a product than the average customer.

Tim Barnes
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It's the climax emotionally as well as vocally. Lucia doesn't just snap. We see this propensity to madness developing throughout the opera.

Andrew Sinclair
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They're known for their propensity to bite unprovoked. There's no way of knowing before they attack.

Eddie Wright
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