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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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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. – Xun Zi

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teacher
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. – Xun Zi

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Fear
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. – Xun Zi

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Nature
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Im not into organized religion. Im into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing were all just part of nature. – Neil Young

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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. – William Channing

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Nature

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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Nature

Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrushs eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Nature

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. – John Millington Synge

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. – Dr. Allan Fromme

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“Independence”… [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. – G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912

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Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. – Loretta Young

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