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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ”
The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven. ”
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. ”
Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong. ”
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human. ”
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do. ”
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other. ”
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. ”
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. ”
I think that the direct conversation is exactly what companies need to earn trust of customers. Admit an error. Fix a problem. Commit to doing better. That is only human. ”