Quote by David Hume
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow o

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume

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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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Certainty
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. – David Hume

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Patriotism
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No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. – Thomas Szasz

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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. – Terri Guillemets, 2007

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Theres an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that arent as important as we make them sometimes. – Marguerite Moreau

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter. – Proverb

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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? – Jacques Plante

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path. – Bhagavad Gita

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