Heather Brooke Quotes
If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
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The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.
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There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
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I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.
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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
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When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
