Hu Shih Quotes
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
Quotes to Explore
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
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I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
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It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.
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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
