Prone
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The sheer magnitude of the Enlightenment’s achievements tends to be undervalued, because we are
prone
to remembering and normalizing catastrophes rather than quotidian improvements.
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Now I'm not going to belabor this point, but studies do show that, as investors, women are much less
prone
to taking reckless risks than men, precisely because, as we've already heard, women tend not to suffer from overconfidence in the same way that men do.
Now "kindness" might sound like a very mild word, and it's
prone
to its own abundant cliche.
And small groups are more
prone
to accidents and bad luck.
After all, they are the most perishable of their kind,
prone
to injury and very slow to heal due to our health care system.
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