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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

Bad, Become, Moral

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.
Anna Kendrick

Thinking, Place, Within

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
Xun Zi

Human, Heaven, Supplies

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
Xun Zi

Work, Human, Cannot

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
Karen Armstrong

Great, Enjoy, Find

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
Manolo Blahnik

Beautiful, Feeling, Away

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Since, Language, Second

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid

God, Thoughts, Laws

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza

Beauty, Beautiful, Confused

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza

Alone, Free, Actions

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
Clyde Tombaugh

Power, Yourself, Whole

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza

Nothing, Follow, Whose

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Thomas Edward Brown

Good, Art, Against

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Human, Language, Speech

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
Lauryn Hill

True, Ego, Hero

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
Albert J. Nock

Spiritual, Thought, Die

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

Society, Humanity, May

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Werner Heisenberg

Science, Between, Ourselves

The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
Hulk Hogan

Love, Family, Past

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Charles Eastman

Among, Save, Temples

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin

Women, Men, Human

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin

Gardening, Humility, Class

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Willie Stargell

Mother, Baseball, Before

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
Amy Grant

Time, Human, Down

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
John Cusack

Bit, Rebellious

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