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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. – Mason Cooley

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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. – Mason Cooley

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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. – Lauryn Hill

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Nature

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – thats where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us were busy denying. – Sue Grafton

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Nature

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased. – Alexander Hamilton

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Nature

In athletics theres always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like youre not cheating. I think thats just a quirk of human nature. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Nature

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