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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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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. – Xun Zi

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Nature
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Xun Zi
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. – Xun Zi

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Nature
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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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The elusive nature of love… it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and its just fluttering and its gone. – Mick Jagger

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. – David Herbert Lawrence

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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory. – Richard Dawkins

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw

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