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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. – Xun Zi

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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. – Henry Rollins

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Nature can do more than physicians. – Oliver Cromwell

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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. – Garrison Keillor

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