#nature

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. ↗

— 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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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer. ↗

— Pat Brown

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#greatness #nature

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. ↗