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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."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"I will do my very best while there is still grace."
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"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."
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"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."
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"Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!"
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"I am seeing life in two dimensions, human and divine."
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"If we born into the world, we must seek rebirth in the world."
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"Happiness is immeasurable joy."
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"PORTERThis is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot."
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"Have a ray of sunshine and light with you everywhere you may go."
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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
"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."
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"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
Authority
"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
"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
Cultural
"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."
Religion
"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."
People
"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
People
"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."
Values
"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."
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