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Hu Shih

"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."

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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

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"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

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"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

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"You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out."

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"Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder."

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"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

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"All the beauty lies in the sacredness of the heart."

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"Exuberance is beauty."

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"A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others."

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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

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Hu Shih
"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."

Beauty

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Hu Shih
"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."

Authority

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Hu Shih
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."

Life

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Hu Shih
"Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights."

Life

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Hu Shih
"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."

Religion

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Hu Shih
"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."

People

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Hu Shih
"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."

Friendship

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Hu Shih
"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."

Time

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Hu Shih
"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."

Truth

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Hu Shih
"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."

Thought

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