And human nature being what it is, there is a depressing default supposition that most politicians are in it for selfish reasons.

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The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, will open the international forum (Room II, 10 a.m.), which will focus on three themes: emancipation from oppression (10.30-11.15), the human being and nature (11.30-12.15) and the educational challenge (12.30-1.15 p.m.).

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Forces from within are factors that reside in both our minds and our hearts, and exist because of the very nature of being human.

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It has to do with being human, and there is a lot of human nature in everybody, including our Bill.

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Human nature being what it is, we soon forget the pain caused by recessions and go back to our previous ineffective habits and beliefs about money.

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What seems to be attractive in science is no longer its being a high intellectual activity, a continuous human search to represent and predict nature, but for what it can produce in terms of controlling, and therefore in terms of power, of mankind on his sorroundings and his fellows.

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