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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

J. K. Rowling

Human nature, Suffering
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

Human nature
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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Human nature
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It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Human nature
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It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

Human nature
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France

Human nature
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Denis Diderot

Human nature
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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Henry Miller

Human nature
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My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

William Shakespeare

Human nature
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Buckminster Fuller

Human nature
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human nature
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Emma Goldman

Human nature
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

Human nature
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

Human nature
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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. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Oscar Wilde

Human nature
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Noam Chomsky

Human nature
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Mark Twain

Human nature
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

Human nature
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Human nature
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Warren Buffett

Human nature
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Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Human nature
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We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Ronald David Laing

Human nature
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Human nature

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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.