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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot stu

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. – Xun Zi

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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of ones inner power. – Xun Zi

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power
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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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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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Nature
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

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Nature

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I think that in todays world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. – Gary Chapman

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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – Georges Bataille

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