"If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?"
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"When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed."
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"Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me"
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"A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object."
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"Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason."
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"The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed."
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"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
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"There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness."
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"The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward."
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"Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics."
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"Know not to revere human things too much."
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"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
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"Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates."
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."
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"Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man."
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"Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature."
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"The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life."
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"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
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"The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development."
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it."
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