Hu Shih Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: December 17, 1891 - February 24, 1962

Topics

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Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Jim Valvano

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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Melinda Gates

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Maybe you're not having a thousand times more injuries, but there's an aspect to the purity of the game and the quality of the game that is played on grass that is different on turf.

Megan Rapinoe

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I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

Michael Haneke

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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

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I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Robert Battle

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I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.

Ruth B

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I have three other siblings, so it's all very equal - even when I get a little cocky, which I usually do. My brother keeps me in a headlock. He says that I'm not a celebrity in this house. I think I'm really chilled out and grounded.

Millie Bobby Brown

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At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you'd never be able to have them at home.

Anton du Beke

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Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

William Shatner

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Swifter, higher, stronger.

Pierre de Coubertin

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Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Peter Arnett

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