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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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"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
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"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
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"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
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"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
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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."
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"Always spend your time adding value to your life."
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"Time is the wealth through which everything comes into existence."
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"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."
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"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."
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"Water is gold in the desert."
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"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
"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
"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."
People
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."
Life
"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."
Love
"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."
History
"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
"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
"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
Language
"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."
People
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