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Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

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

Steven Pinker

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.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

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

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Marianne Moore

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There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Margaret Mead

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The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?