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“For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.”

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Author:Gerald of Wales

“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”

“That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.”

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Author:Kurt Wagner

“When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

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Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”

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Book:The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

“So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?”

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Author:Christina Baker Kline

“Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.”

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Author:Clancy Brown

“It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.”

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Author:Nick Saban

“The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.”

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Author:Yehuda Bauer

“Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.”

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Author:Natalie Dormer