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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapab

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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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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Society
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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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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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Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. Its a very subjective experience. And Im loyal to that experience. – Robert Wyatt

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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. – C. S. Lewis

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Color is an intense experience on its own. – Jim Hodges

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

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Were fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. Its a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world. – Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. – James Russell Lowell

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