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Xun Zi

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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Long ago, wise rulers understood that people are naturally inclined to do wrong. They realized that without guidance and rules, these harmful behaviors would go unchecked.

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

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

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