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"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood."
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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
"Gold may shine, but it has no true light."
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
"Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible."
"People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless."
"Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character."
"The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you are exchanging your life just for some porridge, some little compensation in the form of salary."
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"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."
"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."
"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."
"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."
"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."
"The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance."
"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture."
"For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples."
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