Hu Shih Quotes
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.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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Glasses are not only functional but can be a great way to express yourself and to change your look. As frames around your eyes, glasses are perhaps one of the most important aspects of how you style yourself.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
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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.
