Category: Human Nature

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

~~Kurt Vennegut, Jr.

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"Wild horses couldn't drag a secret out of most women. However, women seldom have lunch with wild horses."

~~Ivern Boyett

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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

~Anna Louise Strong

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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

~~Sigmund Freud

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"This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all the stories about him, and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of the indifference within it, before succumbing to external attack.

~Frank Herbert's *Children of Dune*

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"A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason."

~~J. P. Morgan

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Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.

~~Herodotus

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"Weltschmera is a German word which loosely means 'world suffering deriving from the inevitability of reality to never match up with our expectations.'"

~~Chuck Lorre, director of "Dharma & Greg", from a vanity card during the credits of the show.

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"Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you; but tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to make sure."

~~anon

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People have more problems than anybody.

~~Ward Mallete

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"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."

~~anon

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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still in a room."

~~Blaise Pascal

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"That's women, we like to create drama."

~~Vanessa Page

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"You cannot explain human nature unless you abandon rationality. Fortunately, if you abandon rationality, you can explain anything."

~~JoAnne Schmitz

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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

~~Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

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God must love crazy people.
Why?
He makes so many of them

~~Rambo III

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Deep in the unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

~~from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan, Frank Herbert's Dune

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Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.

~~Ed Post, letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 no 7, July 1983

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"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."

~~Ray Bradbury

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"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

~~P.J. O'Rourke

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"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power"

~~anon

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"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle."

~~Stan Dunn

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"This bowling-ball isn't human. It does not feel pain. It can't be reasoned with."

~~Beavis and Butthead

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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

~~Plato

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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

~~Don Marquis

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Life is full of grief to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

~~Mazer Rakham, Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card

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"People only see what they are prepared to see."

~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the end,
We will only save what we love.
We will only love what we understand.
We will only understand what we are taught.

~~Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist

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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

~Thomas Paine

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