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It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
Stevie Smith
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Poet
Animal
Human Nature
Should
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Able
Barbarism
Greek
Hibernation
Human Nature
Passing
Possessed
Strengthening
Attain
Greeks
Hardly
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I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Tom Stoppard
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Playwright
Civilization
Human Nature
Aspects
Attempt
Categorize
Classify
Hardly
Lend
The History Of
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When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Writer
America
Australia
Europe
Extraordinary
Human Nature
India
Degree
Notices
Travels
Whether
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A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
Mo Yan
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Novelist
Criticism
Dark
Dark Side
Expression
Human Nature
Indignation
Ugliness
Writer
Side
Express
Uniform
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My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
Alain De Botton
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Writer
Aspect
Human Nature
Phenomenon
Identify
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Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.
Patrick Henry
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Governor Of Virginia
Example
Human Nature
Looks
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
Sam Yagan
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Dating
Behavior
Human Nature
Online
Corollary
Involves
Medium
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Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
Rosamund Pike
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Film Actress
Education
Actors
Film
Film Set
Human Nature
Teach
Nature Best Work
Education Nature Best
Actor
Set
Street
Walk
Observe
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It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
William Graham Sumner
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Political Scientist
Human Nature
Reconstruction
Trouble
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Joseph Butler
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Philosopher
Human Nature
Objects
Principles
Self
Self Love
Nature Human Human Nature
Several
Shown
Stated
Thus
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We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.
Theodore Zeldin
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Altered
Human Nature
Centuries
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
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Philosopher
Benevolent
Exercise
Human Nature
Selfishness
Affections
Constitute
Restrain
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Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
William John Locke
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Novelist
Advertisements
Anxious Thoughts
Human Nature
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I think it's just in human nature: if you've got two guys fighting, and you don't really know them, you're going to root for the guy who comes from your country.
Michael Bisping
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Mixed Martial Artist
Human Nature
Root
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When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.
Jaggi Vasudev
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Philanthropist
Good Chance
Human Nature
Certain Things
Exactly What
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Xun Kuang
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Completion
Deliberate
Effort
Heaven
Human Nature
Reputation
Sage
Unifying
Brought
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato
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Philosopher
Men
Compelled
Evil
Greater
Human Nature
Might
Two
Nature Good Man
Prefer
Less
Choose
Human
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The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
Kathryn Harrison
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Author
Human Nature
Revolution
Wrecks
Aspects
Ending
Expresses
Unacceptable
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Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
Jules Amedee Barbey D'aurevilly
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Novelist
Excess
Human Nature
Lust
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I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
Michael Shermer
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Writer
Nature
Religion
Science
Greedy
Helpful
Human Nature
Ideology
Political
Political Ideology
Selfish
Need
Understand
Altruistic
Human
Say
Reveals
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My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.
Christopher Gadsden
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Former Delegate To The Continental Congress
Causes
Human Nature
Liberty
Opinion
Sentiments
Downward
Stamp
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One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
Alison Gopnik
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Writer
Human Nature
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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Jaron Lanier
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Writer
Cheerful
Consistently
Human Nature
Humans
Ideas
Pessimism
Profound
Rhetoric
Thinking
Express
Web
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Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
Walter Bagehot
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Journalist
Age
Society
Human Nature
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I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don't seem to have the first clue.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Clue
Human Nature
Life Nature Work
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen
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Novelist
Inspiring
Nature
Dies
Human Nature
Interesting
Interesting Situations
Literature
Sure
Either
Towards
Situations
Spoken
Young Person
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When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.
Alan Ruck
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Film Actor
Human Nature
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I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I think to doubt Golding's view of human nature.
Rutger Bregman
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Disillusioned
Doubt
Human Nature
Lord
Afterwards
Flies
Second
View
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The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
Jesse Ventura
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Politician
Best
Communism
Figures
Human Nature
Whole
Everybody
Actually
He
Corrupts
Human
Figure
Would
Marx
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Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
Rebecca Mackinnon
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Blogger
Benign
Democratic
Human Nature
Noble
Intentions
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We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.
Melissa Etheridge
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Singer-Songwriter
Brutal
Glad
Human Nature
Judging
Our Society
Want
Judge
Hits
Intrinsic
Surprised
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We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.
Michel De Montaigne
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Writer
Charm
Human Nature
Sight
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Poet
Art
Smile
Enemy
Honor
Human Nature
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Writer
Fundamentals
Human Nature
Law
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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Philosopher
Nature
War
Culture
Human Nature
Regret
Scene
Seems
Disappearing
Phenomena
More And More
Salutary
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
Michel De Montaigne
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Writer
Human Nature
Noble
Play
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer
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Philosopher
Nature
Government
Form
Human Nature
Thinking
Type
Nowhere
Existing
Highest Form
Present
Requires
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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
Barack Obama
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44Th U.s. President
Differences
Human Nature
Race
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Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.
Steven Wilson
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Musician
Human Nature
Inevitable
Storm
Explained
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Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.
Sylvia Earle
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Explorer
Bigs
Human Nature
Humans
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I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
Paul Taylor
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Ballet Choreographer
Nature
Human Nature
Miraculous
Odds
Unusual
Want
Lift
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
John Tillotson
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Archbishop Of Canterbury
Human Nature
Shame
Two
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What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.
Morton Irving Seiden
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Author
Behave
Doe
Human Nature
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It's human nature for everyone to say 'what if,' but I try to snap out of it as quickly as I can because I'm never going to be able to go back and change what has happened.
Kyle Carpenter
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Human Nature
What If
Snap
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
Xun Kuang
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Cold
Human Nature
Hungry
Tired
Warm
Rest
Fill
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
Cass Sunstein
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Legal Scholar
Firm
Human Nature
People
Surround
Surround Yourself
Thinking
Versions
Extreme
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It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
Mireille Enos
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Film Actress
Focus
Human Nature
Secret
Want
Drawn
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It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.
Eric Weiner
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Author
Facts
Human Nature
Two
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Alexander Herzen
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Writer
Breadth
Development
Fence
Human Nature
Captive
Fences
Held
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