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Human nature Quotes
"We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."
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Alain de Botton
"Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for."
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Alain de Botton
"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
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Ezra Pound
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends"
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Benjamin Franklin
"There is no language without deceit"
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Italo Calvino
"Inside every man there are two wolves battling"
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Italo Calvino
"My friend, my friend, I was born doing reference work in sin, and born confessing it."
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Anne Sexton
"I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the least. It's so boring to be perfect."
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Madonna
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"
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Bertrand Russell
"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late"
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Thomas Sowell
"I guess the truth is that people are good at heart until something breaks them and then they aren’t"
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John Steinbeck
"He that is angry at a fault will hate a man who has none"
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Samuel Johnson
"Fear is such a strong passion that it compels all other natural affections and by consequence all resolutions"
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Thomas Aquinas
"People are bloody ignorant apes."
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Samuel Beckett
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