#human nature

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

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It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. ↗

— Peter Lynch

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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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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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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. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. ↗

— Terence

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