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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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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. – Xun Zi

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teacher
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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

Category:
Nature
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Xun Zi
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Nature surpasses nurture. – Proverb

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Nature

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleonora Duse

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Nature

In athletics theres always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like youre not cheating. I think thats just a quirk of human nature. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Nature

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare

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Nature

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Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. – Calvin Coolidge

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work

Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind…. – Thomas Buchanan Read

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Horses, Horse Racing

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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God