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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must b

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. – Xun Zi

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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. – Xun Zi

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Faith
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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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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. – Xun Zi

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Music
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. – James Whitcomb Riley

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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Nature

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nature

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. – Steven Pinker

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Nature

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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. – Sam Mendes

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors. – Lee Scott

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Beauty