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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and w

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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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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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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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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To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

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It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess youd call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. – Lisa See

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A representative is free delivery shes a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch. – Andrea Jung

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. – Ronald Reagan

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I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me. – Patrick Duffy

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