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“It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.”

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Book:I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

Source: I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

“I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!”

“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”

“Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”

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Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.”

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Author:John Eldredge

“It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.”

Source: Science, Order, and Creativity

“And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”

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Book:The Casual Vacancy

Source: The Casual Vacancy

“The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.”

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Author:Dominique Moceanu

“We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.”

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Book:Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

Source: Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

“Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.”

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Author:Charles Loring Brace

“A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.”

Source: An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

“Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.”

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Author:Lynne Cheney