"The belly comes before the soul."
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"We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals."
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"We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy."
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"Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact."
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"Human nature is disposed to do good."
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"A quiet conscience makes one so serene."
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"God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other."
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"Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
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"Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other."
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"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."
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"The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature."
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"I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice."
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"Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be."
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"Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated."
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"What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense."
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"Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words."
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"I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with."
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"This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature."
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"Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world."
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"Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?"
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