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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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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. – Xun Zi

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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. – 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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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

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Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. – Greg Peterson, 1997, www.urbanfarm.org

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Nature does nothing in vain. – Aristotle

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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. – Thomas Frank

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I havent lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But thats from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. – Kevin Costner

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. – Randall Terry

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