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"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
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"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
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"Pride and excess bring disaster for man."
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"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."
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"Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion."
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"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."
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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."
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"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."
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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."
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"Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order."
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"There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men."
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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
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"It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq."
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"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon."
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"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
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"In some causes silence is dangerous."
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"Evil events from evil causes spring."
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"In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial."
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"Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs."
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"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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