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

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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

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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.

Beauty, Cultural, Despised, Grandeur, Groups, People

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

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The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment. . . They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at home with nature and at peace with their lot.

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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.

Comparison, Contact, Critically, Elements, Relative Value, Understood
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