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chinese-philosopher eat fill human nature rest warm
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher fantastic human integral music required
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
chinese-philosopher coming disgrace inner
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
chinese-philosopher lack people ritual tendencies
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
chinese-philosopher pliable rigid
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
chinese-philosopher
A person is born with a liking for profit.
chinese-philosopher human nature
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
chinese-philosopher concerned sacrifices
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
chinese-philosopher involve later man sees sooner time
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
instance reporting violated
We have never in any instance violated any reporting requirement.
instance recently relatively returned seems species time
One of the species on the Azores returned to Europe. It seems that having got there in the first instance a very long time ago, it relatively recently migrated back to Europe.
instance large limitless might possibly
The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes. Seth Shostak
instance legal obligation protect responsibility
We have the responsibility and legal obligation to protect the university's trademarks, which in this instance is the 12th Man.
instance itself proud quite
We'll be the first in this instance and that in itself is a rarity. I think we can be quite proud if we do it.
instance prolonged war
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. Sun Tzu
instance main money raise reason school thailand
The main reason why we've set up the international school in Thailand in the first instance was to raise money for Harrow in the UK,
instance national open parks present tragedy
The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit. Garrett Hardin
instance john paying site straight talked
A site like John Kerry's for instance is very well organized, very straight forward, and that could be paying off for him. It is not as sexy, and it is not talked about as much, but it's awfully practical.
prolonged
Manufacturing is mired in a deep, prolonged recession.