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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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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. – Xun Zi

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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. – 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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. – Leonardo da Vinci

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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And its not so much divine retribution as its built into the law of nature. – Pat Robertson

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Natures great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing. – John Donne

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