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Well, that system is, I think, probably the system that kept us alive to this point, given our human
tendencies.
It's not simply corruption and waste that you create; you essentially replace the priorities of the Afghan government, the elected Afghan government, with the micromanaging
tendencies
of foreigners on short tours with their own priorities.
I think morality is much more than what I've been talking about, but it would be impossible without these ingredients that we find in other primates, which are empathy and consolation, pro-social
tendencies
and reciprocity and a sense of fairness.
And without those stretch assignments, we're less likely to get promoted, and so on and so on until we are super depressed by the demographic
tendencies
of our senior leadership.
They were pious people, but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit-making tendencies, compared to the other colonists.
What we found was as the expensiveness of a car increased ... (Laughter) the drivers
' tendencies
to break the law increased as well.
What are its
tendencies
over time?
If you do this again and again, the propensity, the
tendencies
for anger to arise again will be less and less each time you dissolve it.
Now, it takes time, because it took time for all those faults in our mind, the tendencies, to build up, so it will take time to unfold them as well.
We unknowingly filter based on our preferences, tendencies, and many other aspects that we believe are important.
The kinds of actions that people often associate with OCD, like excessive hand washing, or checking things repeatedly, may be examples of obsessive or compulsive
tendencies
that many of us exhibit from time to time.
When we raise kids this way, and I'll say we, because Lord knows, in raising my two teenagers, I've had these
tendencies
myself, our kids end up leading a kind of checklisted childhood.
Now this is just a little study, but it's part of a larger body of research that is starting to indicate that there may be a connection between people's
tendencies
for empathy and their behavior around robots.
But there's actually a large aspect of technology that's much more predictable, and that's because technological systems of all sorts have leanings, they have urgencies, they have
tendencies.
And those
tendencies
are derived from the very nature of the physics, chemistry of wires and switches and electrons, and they will make reoccurring patterns again and again.
And so those patterns produce these tendencies, these leanings.
And so these baked-in
tendencies
and urgencies in technological systems give us a sense of where things are going at the large form.
So we have many ongoing
tendencies
right now, and I think one of the chief among them is this tendency to make things smarter and smarter.
In other words, I needed to build something very much like a HAL but without the homicidal
tendencies.
Average faces represent the central
tendencies
of a group.
Caused by the powerful and nefarious forces of the overmighty state, whose collectivizing
tendencies
crush freedom and individualism and opportunity.
One of the most common
tendencies
we have when our heart is broken is to idealize the person who broke it.
Apparently, a massive head wound is the cure for homicidal tendencies, turning a murderous sociopath into a lovable and oafish dog catcher.
Richard Harris once again over-indulges in his passion for excessive makeup, toning down the eyeliner for far too much foundation this time in an effort to hide the fact he's at least 25 years too old for the role, but at least he (perhaps inappropriately) reduces his larger-than-life
tendencies
for a performance made up mainly of patronising whispering.
Ben eventually picks Lawanda (played by the most underused original SNL-er Laraine Newman), whose Blanche DuBois
tendencies
don't suit Junior in the least.
The first movie to perhaps openly depict lesbian
tendencies
amongst Indian women.
Shortly after, they brutally encounter an inbred family of which the twin sons have murderous
tendencies.
If we compare the movie industry with an ocean, we have the
tendencies
to observe only the surface.
I am a happily married woman and I've never had lesbian tendencies, but my, this movie almost made it something I crave.
For Joe projects his own violent
tendencies
onto those who he considers "the enemy" and therefore considers himself to be in a war, and in this movie, the "generation gap" is portrayed as a war.
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