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“My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.”

Knows Humans Made Bigs Sex Deals Too Much Human Nature Response Significance Frank Big Deal

Author:John Travolta

“Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.”

Humans Government Justice Principles Too Much Human Nature Good Things Mere

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Know not to revere human things too much.”

Knows Humans Too Much Human Nature Limits

Author:Aeschylus

“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.”

“An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.”

Men Want Humans Littles Sometimes Too Much Worst Conditions Human Nature Consequence Guilt Harm Miserable Innocence Suspicion Distrust

Book:Israel Potter: Works of Melville

Source: Israel Potter: Works of Melville

“Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!”

Men Mind Littles Too Much Air Fashion Human Nature Shapes Skills Dignity Luxury Accomplishment Interiors Elegance

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.”

Men Needs Humans Asks Too Much Human Nature Circumstances Loyalty Doctrine Dogma Heresy Orthodoxy Renunciation Rationalize

Author:J. William Fulbright

“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”

Humans Too Much Human Nature Human Intelligence

Author:Philip Roth

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Littles Turns Attitude Too Much Failing Human Nature Comfort Expectations Disappointment Schemes Calculations Start The Day Mansfield Park

Book:8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.”

People Thinking World Trying Littles Today Language Causes Too Much Trouble Human Nature Communication Respect Caring Resolution World Today Win Win Talking Too Much

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.”

Believe Humans May Children Hard Hands Political Difficult Cases Virtue Too Much Human Nature Kings Achievement Sovereign Succession Hard To Believe Hereditary

Author:Aristotle

“Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.”

Humans Littles Too Much Human Nature Accidents Undertakings

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding

“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

Humans Wells Found My Own Too Much Human Nature Disappointed

Book:A Fairy Tale of New York

Source: A Fairy Tale of New York