2,272 Quotes About Human-nature
- Author Niall Williams
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Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
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- Author Germany Kent
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People will teach you how to treat them.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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The most effective way to control the people is to make them reliant on you through consistent reward with the least effort on their part.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
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- Author Philip Roth
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There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.
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- Author David Mitchell
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Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled her for ballet classes, and sent her to horse-riding camp five summers in a row. But look at her. She turned into Lester anyway. She kisses Luisa’s forehead. Luisa frowns, suspiciously, like a teenager. “What?
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- Author Peter Matthiessen
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And it is a profound consolation, perhaps the only one, to this haunted animal that wastes most of a long and ghostly life wandering the future and the past on its hind legs, looking for meanings, only to see in the eyes of others of its kind that it must die.
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- Author Srinivas Shenoy
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I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is, whether it impedes in our development, our internal growth - and whether it makes us a bigot.
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