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I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place. -- Albert Brooks
To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of men and women. The SPIRIT is not in the fundamental nature of humans but is the supernatural gift of God, TO BE FOUND IN CHRISTIANS ONLY. -- John Wesley
But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl she was. Now, don't be amazed! That is just the nature of humans, to notice the one flaw among a person's ten good qualities." -- Janaki Sooriyarachchi
I'm an advocate of human nature. -- Jaron Lanier
Human nature is not of itself vicious. -- Thomas Paine
Law is born from despair of human nature. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is a great deal of human nature in man. -- Charles Kingsley
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. -- Henry Adams
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. -- Edith Hamilton
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. -- Marianne Moore
One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature. -- Chris Hondros
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. -- Orson Welles
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. -- Karl Kraus
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. -- Joseph Addison
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. -- Walter Bagehot
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. -- Pat Conroy
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. -- Dalai Lama
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. -- Morris West
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. -- Liu Xiaobo
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. -- Edward Thorndike
Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans~? -- Drats
Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans. -- Mike Huckabee
Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines. -- Hideki Yukawa
Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature. -- Marc Bekoff
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it. -- Neko Case
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. -- Che Guevara
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. -- Nikki Giovanni
in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses. -- Alan Weisman
I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do. -- Dan Wells
One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave. -- John Gardner
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. -- Noam Chomsky
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. -- Sherwood Smith
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world. -- Scott Cunningham
But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again. -- Lucy Christopher
Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics. -- Ted Nordhaus
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. -- Isobelle Carmody
Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter. -- Dave Barry
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race. -- Max Brooks
A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat. -- Gene Logsdon
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion. -- Petra Kelly
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. -- Jaron Lanier
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?' -- William McDonough
I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither. -- Richard Preston
Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction. -- Muriel Barbery
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us. -- Sarah Dessen
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature. -- Michael Shermer
We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent. -- Anita Roddick
Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society. -- Michael Shermer
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! -- Oliver Goldsmith

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