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There seems to
be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make
easy things difficult.
-- Warren Buffett
1930-, American Investment
Entrepreneur
The principle
that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing
more than a product of history and given social relations
removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the
powerful.
-- Noam Chomsky
1928-, American Linguist,
Political Activist
It is not
human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions
that pervert it.
-- Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher
Two things are
infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure
about the universe.
-- Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born
American Physicist
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Now I believe
I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be
misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance,
but it isn't --it's human.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
It is human
nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
-- Anatole France
1844-1924, French Writer
Nature is
trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not
depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor,
Designer, Poet, Philosopher
Poor human
nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy
name!
-- Emma Goldman
1869-1940, American Anarchist
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