Quote by Hu Shih
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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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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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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I love my beauty. Its not my fault. – Valentino Garavani

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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Beauty and the devil are the same thing. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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Dont get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. – Mark Hyman

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