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“Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.”

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Book:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.”

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Author:Enrique Iglesias

“Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.”

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Author:Jessica Shirvington

“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.”

Humans Seems One Thing Human Nature Cruelty Unnatural

Author:Robinson Jeffers

“For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And second, I think, it is a good model for studying other human properties, which ought to be studied by psychologists in the same way.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.”

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Book:The Black Book of Secrets

Source: The Black Book of Secrets

“A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.”

One Thing Human Nature Sense Of Humor

Author:Mark Twain

“Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.”