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“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”

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Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.”

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Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

“Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.”

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Author:Deborah

“It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.”

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Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they'll just keep coming back again and again.”

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Author:Christopher Ryan

“I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'”

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Author:David McCullough

“We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east where you got people getting beheaded it's like the crusades with Twitter. It's crazy, human nature does the same thing. In a way, even though you're in the future people wanted order so this sort of system rose up.”

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Author:Alfred Gough

“It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were set free, that sort of particular proclivity in human nature was set free to do its best and its worst. Politicians and regulators are consumers of ideas. They never have any ideas of their own, it would take too much like hard work to develop ideas, you get them off menus and you pick the ones that suit you. Financial services were set free to go beyond their rightful place, a place by which they have been restrained in the past.”

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Author:Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.”

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Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture