#human nature

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

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It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. ↗

— William Bernbach

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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. ↗

— Xun Zi

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Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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