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Quote by Hu Shih
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge

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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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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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. – Hu Shih

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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

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. – Hannah Arendt

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