"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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"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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"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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"Pride and excess bring disaster for man."
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"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."
―Xun Zi
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" If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?"
―Xun Zi
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"Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing."
―Xun Zi
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"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
―Xun Zi
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"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
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"If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others."
―Xun Zi
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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."
―Xun Zi
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"Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing."
―Xun Zi
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"Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die."
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