Elvis Presley
Singer, Actor
"Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself."
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Human Nature
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Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"What you are will show in what you do."
Theodor Herzl
Journalist, Writer, Political Activist
"If you will it, it is no dream"
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days."
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"Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!"
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"We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general."
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"Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature."
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"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."
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"It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort."
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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
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"Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception"
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"Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature."
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"It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another."
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"Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them."
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"When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us."
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"Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature."
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"It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well."
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"To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is."
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"We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such."
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"If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment."
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"I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not."
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"Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave."
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"It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped"
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"Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end."
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