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• We hardly know any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking, and so grotesque, as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket, and a quire of bad verses in the other.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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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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• What’s so wonderful about ‘The Walking Dead’ is that we’re able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

  Gale Anne Hurd

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• Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

  Edward O. Wilson

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• Among human beings trust comes about, not from expressions of wealth or fame, but from our showing affection.

  Dalai Lama

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• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  Samuel Johnson

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• It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it – which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Peter Lynch

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• If you’re rude for television’s sake, it ain’t reality TV.

  Pete Waterman

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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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• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

  Sienna Miller

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• My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

  Steven Pinker

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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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• Loki in ‘Thor’ is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I’d built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

  Tom Hiddleston

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• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  George Mason IV

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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 Christoph Lichtenberg

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• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

  Thomas Day

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• England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

  E. M. Forster

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• Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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