But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications. . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.
Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.
If there's any plan or scheme on my part, it's subconscious. Whatever I do tends to be very different from the thing I did last. You're terrified of boring either yourself or anyone else. It's always attractive if it feels like something that you haven't done before. I generally tend to be better, I think, when I'm terrified out of my wits.
Evil perpetually tends to disappear.
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.
Good rock music always tends to be around.
A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year. . . and under-estimate what he can do in five.
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there
Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.
I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the importance of the sentimental. Maybe it says, "We need love in this world," but it's always this tough, strong statement.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.