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Quote by Xun Zi
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that mens nature is bad and

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that mens nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. – Xun Zi

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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. – Xun Zi

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Nature
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Xun Zi
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. – Xun Zi

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Self-preservation, natures first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. – Andrew Marvell

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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. – Christopher Morley

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I dont understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. Its a pretty gross interference with nature. – Peter Singer

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But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer. – Helen Thomas

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