"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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"It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it."
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"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."
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"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue."
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"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."
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"Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed."
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"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
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"The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature."
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"Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary."
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"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."
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"It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly."
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"[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed."
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"Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature."
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"It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this."
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"People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times."
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"I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace."
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