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In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

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

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #desire #even #hindus

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chief concern #chinese #chinese people #concern #confucianism

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

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. ↗

— Hu Shih

#basis #better #biological #death #decay

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

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#expressed #first #first step #government #happened

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#front #goalkeeper #going #good #good manager