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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and,

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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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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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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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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Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a products cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. – Eliot Spitzer

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. – Milton Friedman

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. – Rowan Atkinson

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Too much of our society looks for people to fail. – Roger Goodell

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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. – Bulgarian Proverb

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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. – Thomas Aquinas

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Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines – of molecular machines that are part of replicators – and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise. – K. Eric Drexler

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