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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should f

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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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink – such is the bravery of the dog and boar. – Xun Zi

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Death
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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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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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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. – Indra Devi

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. – W. Clement Stone

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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. – Ben Stein

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

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Music is the emotional life of most people. – Leonard Cohen

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Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates. – R. Lee Ermey

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Graduation