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The phrase "a human inclination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a natural tendency or predisposition that humans have towards certain behaviors or thoughts.
Example: "Many psychologists study a human inclination to seek social connections, as it plays a crucial role in mental health."
Alternatives: "a human tendency" or "a human predisposition".
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For me, such pinpoint categorisations risk a human inclination to (as Wordsworth said of those analysing nature's beauty too closely) "murder to dissect".
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When tragedy strikes, it's a natural human inclination to want an explanation to help get closure for our feelings of anger and loss.
And this elastic morality around the folk hero appears to be a global human inclination.
Harnessing a natural human inclination toward gossip, complaint, prediction and obsession, they are using TV show Web sites to offer clips, outtakes, interviews, games, message boards and blogs — not to mention entire episodes.
I don't think it's cynical; I don't think she's putting it on; I think it's a natural human inclination to go with the crowd.
In a world filled with constant conflict, senseless violence, and seemingly endless suffering, there's a natural human inclination to feel paralyzed by the enormity of the problems we face.
It's a natural human inclination to strive to be surrounded by people...even when those people drain us.
In one well-recorded moment, he elevated Bilal to such a position of esteem that, to this day, Muslims, in spite of all human inclinations to differentiate on the basis of race and difference, find it easy to respect and accept people from different races and ethnicities within their fold and consider them as moral equals.
And this decision, rather than following along a perfectly manicured line of reasoning and evidence, relies on that least scientific of all human inclinations — the simple leap of faith.
The objectivity of the pure concept of the human will precludes the recognition of human inclination as a measure of human goodness.
The business thinker Peter Drucker might have agreed — success in business requires, as he called it, "intellectual integrity" — the ability to resist our human inclination to color a situation for better or worse, and instead to have one's perception exactly mirror the situation as it exists in the real world.
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