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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
~ John Keats
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
~ Cass Sunstein
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
~ Xun Zi
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"Seek first to understand and then to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives."
~ tephen R. Covey
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it."
~ Jess Lair
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"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror."
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
~ Henry Louis Mencken
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice."
~ Jean de La Bruyere
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
~ Albert Camus
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“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
~ C. JoyBell C.
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“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
~ Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage
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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
~ Mark Twain
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“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
~ Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
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“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
~ George Carlin
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“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
~ G.K. Chesterton
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“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
~ Sigmund Freud
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“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
~ George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
~ Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
~ George Orwell, All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
~ Aldous Huxley
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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
~ Blaise Pascal
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
~ Dale Carnegie
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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