"Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature."
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"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature."
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"What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so."
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"Human nature is fond of novelty."
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"You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress."
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"Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature."
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"I'm insatiably curious about human nature."
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"... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all."
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"There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it."
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"What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away."
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"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."
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"Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false."
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"To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature."
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"Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature."
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"Human nature craves novelty."
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"Human-nature will not change."
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"You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings."
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"Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it."
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"Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature."
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"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."
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