#to

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

Music is too important to be left to professionals. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#left #music #professionals #too

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. ↗

— Hu Shih

#already #ancient #another #china #early

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 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

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

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. ↗

— John Shimkus

#civil #civil rights #conviction #december #defy