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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.


Hu Shih


#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.


Matthew Simpson


#events #few #few men #history #how

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.


Nancy Sinatra


#else #falls #gone #happens #history

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.


Christian Slater


#disregard #english #factual #history #hollywood

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.


Arthur Smith


#always #between #comedy #course #falls

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.


Huston Smith


#better #depends #future #history #marching

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.


Gertrude Stein


#about #does #itself #repeat #soothing

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


#history #long #long struggle #past #struggle

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


#degradation #found #fully #grand #history

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.


Potter Stewart


#core #free #governmental #his #history






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