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After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, the

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. – Hu Shih

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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. – Hu Shih

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Death
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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. – Hu Shih

Category:
Beauty
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Hu Shih
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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. – Hu Shih

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Experience
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Learning
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. – Ray Charles

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Im learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise. – Traci Bingham

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Learning

Ive done some TV and Ive done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. Im used to learning material and words. – Sutton Foster

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Learning

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid. – Rob Mariano

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Learning

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau

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Justice & Law

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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War

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. – Pablo Picasso

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I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor – herbs and spices – to everything because I dont want them getting used to starchy, bland food. I also want them to experiment – they dont have to love everything, but they do have to try it. – Alison Sweeney

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Food