"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

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“I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.”
“Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.”
“An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.”
“One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.”
“The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.”

Source : "What is Political Philosophy?". Book by Leo Strauss, 1959.
“Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.”
“[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.”

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