"If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony."
-Xun Zi
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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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"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity."
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"A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned."
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"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
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"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."
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"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
-Robert Frost
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates
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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-Hector Berlioz
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
-Denis Waitley
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
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