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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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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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Nature
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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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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. – Henry David Thoreau

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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. – Ben Stein

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My nature just changes. – Jimi Hendrix

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