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“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.”

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.”

Littles I Can Human Nature Tasks Brilliant

Author:Oscar Wilde

“What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.”

Humans Ideas Science Language Human Beings Human Nature Depends Tasks Communicate Our Words Suspended

Author:Niels Bohr

“Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.”

Trying Humans Home Purpose Mankind Human Nature Draws Tasks Prejudice Instinct Statesmen Warts

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.”

Trying Humans Enough Hands House Nature Human Nature Tasks Males Liars Introducing Amusing Skillful Candor Untruth Infusion

Author:E. V. Lucas

“The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.”

Knows World Humans Kind Facts Left Numbers Psychology Human Nature Tasks Add Insight Assumption Satisfying Smallest Evolutionary Psychology

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural potential are the root of the entire human domain. The great task of all philosophizing is to become competent to interpret and steer the potential developmental forces in human natures and in the human condition, both of which are prodigiously fatalistic.”

“It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.”

People Humans Seems Law Enemy Human Nature Easier Negative Program Tasks Hatred Agree Envy Better Off Road To Serfdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek