#strange

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

#another #beauty #become #cornerstone #cultural

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. ↗

— Hu Shih

#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. ↗

— Nate Silver

#become #kind #little #strange #symbol

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#interaction #naturally #positive #relation #specific

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#attributes #exhausted #get #one thing #profession

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like. ↗

— Molly Sims

#being #food #getting #i #jet

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethics #face #family #good #good life

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#actor #allowed #being #body #clothes

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#ancient #birth #born #borne #forgive