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“Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.”

Humans Humanity Loses Quality Human Nature Unexplored

Book:Science and Philosophy

Source: Science and Philosophy

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'”

“It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.”

Humans Long Moving Interest Loses Mystery Human Nature Pondering

Book:P Is for Peril

Source: P Is for Peril

“Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.”

Persons I Can Wisdom Reality Religion Lost Loses Justice Half Five Generations Human Nature Ethics Shadow Strategy Individuality Ideology Thirty Other Half

Author:Vicky Beeching

“A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.”

Ifs Humans Humanity Loses Justice Liberty Struggle Human Nature Crime Ought Command Glorious Admiration Respectable Respectability Magnanimity

Book:Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

Knows Humans Persons Loses Human Nature Possibility My Friends Murder Innocent Absurd Innocent Person

Book:Murder in the Calais Coach

Source: Murder in the Calais Coach

“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.”

“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.”

Men Reason Body Together Found Individual Causes Loses Religious Party Numbers Moral Greater Violence Human Nature Judging Equal Injustice Motive Proportion Adequate Efficacy

Author:James Madison

“We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live.”

World Life Should Humans Has Beens Christian Given Loses Views Human Nature Humility Planets Enormous Live Life Complexity Proportion Christian Humility

Author:George F. Kennan

“Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.”

Humans Mean Loses Human Nature Institutions Missions Vulnerability Gross

Author:Bill Gross

“Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.”

People Humans Purpose Loses Human Nature Demand Management Recognition Restless Dissatisfied Unproductive

Author:Ricardo Semler