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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If

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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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teachers instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. – Xun Zi

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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of peoples emotional nature. – Xun Zi

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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. – Anne Bronte

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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Its human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. Thats just so normal. – Amy Grant

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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