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«There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.»
Author: Benjamin Haydon
| Keywords:
extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, Human nature, inherent, propensities, propensity
«Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat»
Author: Iris Chang
| Keywords:
allows, banal, Human nature, occur, pose, posed, poses, posing, provided, threat, unspeakable
«The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.»
«The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Opinions,
Pain
| Keywords:
hasty, Human nature, leap, undergo
«There is a great deal of human nature in man.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
| About:
Human Nature,
Man
| Keywords:
a great deal, deal, dealt out, deal out, great, great deal, How To Deal, human, Human nature, The Deal
«Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Appetite
| Keywords:
appetites, conquered, dears, Human nature, subdue, subdues
«There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . .»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
apt, but then, calculation, disappointments, everywhere, fails, Human nature, rubbing, rubs, rub up, scheme, scheming, turns
«There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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changed, change hands, completely, early, Human nature, in hand, The Job
«Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.»
«The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
appreciated, craving, cravings, deepest, Human nature
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