Quote by Hu Shih
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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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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Hu Shih
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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Poetry
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Hu Shih
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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. – Hu Shih

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Truth
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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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Our whole society is instantaneous. – Bryan Cranston

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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. – C. Northcote Parkinson

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