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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 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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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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Learning
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Hu Shih
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. – Hunter S. Thompson

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I know that Ive got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But Im happy with myself. Im not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. – Clay Aiken

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Beauty is being in harmony with what you are. – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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Thats why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. – Kevyn Aucoin

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