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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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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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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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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I dont believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. – Eric Schmidt

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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. – Dean Kamen

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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world. – Voltaire

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