"Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing."

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Source : DONALD A. WOLLHEIM (1980). “THE 1980 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF”

Donald A. Wollheim

#Human Nature Quotes #Violent Quotes #Given Quotes

“I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.”
“What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.”
“My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Be a gentleman farmer.”
“You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.”

Source : Douglas Preston (2009). “Blasphemy”, p.307, Pan Macmillan
“The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.”
“I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.”
“What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?”

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