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"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."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
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"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
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"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."
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"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
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"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
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"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
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"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
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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."
Life
"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."
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"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
"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
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."
Life
"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."
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"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."
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"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
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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."
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"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
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