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• What’s so wonderful about ‘The Walking Dead’ is that we’re able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

  Gale Anne Hurd

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• Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

  Edward O. Wilson

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• We hardly know any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking, and so grotesque, as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket, and a quire of bad verses in the other.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• Among human beings trust comes about, not from expressions of wealth or fame, but from our showing affection.

  Dalai Lama

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• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it – which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Peter Lynch

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• Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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• The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

  Thomas Day

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• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  George Mason IV

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• Loki in ‘Thor’ is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I’d built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

  Tom Hiddleston

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• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Steven Pinker

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• My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

  Steven Pinker

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• To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

  Edward Thorndike

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• It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

  Edward Thorndike

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• Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

  William Hunt Gross

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• No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

  William Howard Taft

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• Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

  Edward Hall

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• If you’re rude for television’s sake, it ain’t reality TV.

  Pete Waterman

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• Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

  Sienna Miller

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• You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

  William Lyon Phelps

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