"Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature."
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"Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature."
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"My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time."
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"People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person."
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"The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions."
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"You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable."
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"It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature."
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"For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out."
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"I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe."
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"Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat."
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"Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened."
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"I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be."
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"Man's existence precedes his essence"
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"Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things."
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"Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous."
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"The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward."
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"It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it."
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"Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown."
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"All babies are Buddha babies."
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"Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side."
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