#ear

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗

— Hu Shih

#comparison #contact #critically #cultural #elements

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #convince #could #culture

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. ↗

— Ron Silver

#careers #damage #fear #public #retribution

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. ↗

— Carly Simon

#i #lived #sometimes #songs #started

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage. ↗

— Ron Silver

#desire #early #early age #had #i

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#back #before #change #cut #dad

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#highs #i #lows #maybe #much

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anyway #around #could #east #europe

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#been #destined #i #mother #old

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#could #had #happened #hardly #human