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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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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. – Hu Shih

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Religion
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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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Beauty
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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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Learning
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when its packaged as the Night Out, then thats the death of it. – Ralph Fiennes

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Ive always had bronchitis. Ive been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. – Mercedes McCambridge

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Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. – Mike Myers

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