#human nature

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. ↗

— David Baldacci

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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ↗

— Paul Taylor

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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

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