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"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."

Friendship, Poetry, People, America, Friends

"Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights."

Life, Oil, Shops

"The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance."

Love, Life, May

"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."

People, Development, Religious

"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."

Cultural, Culture, Understanding

"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."

People, Country, Culture, Intellectuals

"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."

Time, Present, Schools

"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."

Religion, Fact, First

"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."

Truth, Responsibility, Sense

"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."

Death, Knowledge, Achievement, Immortality

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"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."

John Acton, English Historian

Authority, Custom, Duty, Influence

"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."

Lord Acton, British Historian

Authority, Country, Duty, Man

"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Authority, Man

"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

Authority, Day, Defiance, May

"I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject."

Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian Statesman

Authority, Events, Facts, Historians

"Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter."

Paul Bailey, American Novelist

Authority, Necessity, Writer

"As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable."

Fredrik Bajer, Danish Writer

Authority, Result, Study

"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."

Bruno Bettelheim, Italian Writer

Authority, May, Obedience, Punishment

"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

Allan Bloom, American Philosopher

Authority, Children, Entertainment, Parents

"Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome."

Don Bluth, American Artist

Authority, May, Now