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God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.
You know if you go far in the World Cup you are away for almost two months and I think it's against human nature, not to have families there.
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.
The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.
Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
Any hit films, impact-creating films, leave their mark on the industry. It is in human nature to try to follow something that is creating an impact.
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.