You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.
For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.
The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.
The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
I am not a pacifist, however I do believe that the U. S. tends to resort to force too quickly. I am not referring only to the current administration; the same thing happened in the Balkans, and on other occasions.
For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.
The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.