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“Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

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Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

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Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.”

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Book:Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change

Source: Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change

“I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“When inhumanity is committed on others, we turn our back, when it's committed on us, we compromise. That's how the world works, nay, that's how we work - we the so-called civilized beings. What civilized! What sentient! What sapient! We haven't even developed the spine to stand up to oppression and dehumanization! Then how on earth could we call ourselves civilized, sentient, and sapient!”

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Book:The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Be strong, but don't let that strength blind you to such an extent that you become ignorant of other people's weaknesses.”

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Book:Conscience over Nonsense

Source: Conscience over Nonsense

“If beauty so far removed from the animal is passionately desired, it is because to possess is to sully, to reduce to the animal level. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”

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Book:Erotism: Death and Sensuality

Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality

“In everyday life of the common human, reason takes a back seat and emotions dictate all significant behavior.”

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Book:Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty