#human nature

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

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There is a great deal of human nature in man. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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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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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

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