Prone
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Hubristic presidents contemplating Churchill’s bust in their office are
prone
to believe that they have been called upon to be “war presidents” – that they, like Churchill in 1940, must oppose the next Hitler.
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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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