“Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.”

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American editor and novelist 1910–1993

Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) English fiction writer

The White Witch (1958), Part 1, Chapter 12.2

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”

Harvey Pekar (1939–2010) writer

“Evan Solomon: Just for the record that's pretty harsh stuff..”

Thomas Flanagan (political scientist) (1944) author, academic, and political activist

“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”

Clarence Day (1874–1935) American writer

As quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp

“Although Aristotle may have been right to claim that a desire to know is part of the fundamental constitution of human nature, … Nietzsche is also correct to emphasize that the impulse to evaluate our surroundings, our fellows, and ourselves is at least as deeply rooted in our human nature as is any natural “desire to know.””

Raymond Geuss book Philosophy and Real Politics

“Der Mensch ist ein abschätzendes Tier.”
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), pp. 38-39.

“I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.”

Tony Bennett (1926) American singer

[Dino, Scatena, The new cool cat on the block, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/15/1081998284897.html?from=storyrhs, Sydney Morning Herald, 2004-04-16, 2006-11-10]
Take-off on an aphorism attributed to Wilson Mizner, in response to Michael Bublé's acknowledgment of having "stolen stuff" from Bennett.