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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. - Xu

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

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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. – Xun Zi

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Humor
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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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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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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. – John Fowles

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[H]e ran, he stopped—he dipped his glowing face into the cloud of blossoming bushes, and would fain lose himself in the humming world between the leaves; he pressed the scratched face into the deep, cooling grass, and hung delirious on the breast of the immortal mother of Spring. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. – Jules Verne

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I think I have a dualistic nature. – Bob Dylan

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Im not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. Im going to say Im opposed to war. But Im also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. – John Wooden

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