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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. – Xun Zi

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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. – Xun Zi

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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. – 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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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – Arthur Erickson

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Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. – David Deutsch

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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! – Henry Fielding

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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature. – Bodhidharma

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