#human nature

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature. ↗

— David Duchovny

#back #every #every time #everybody #human

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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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. ↗

— Anna Sui

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Communism is in conflict with human nature. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Human nature is above all things lazy. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. ↗

— Xun Zi

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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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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