Word: confucius
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...Said grave, grey Dr. Chen Li-fu, newly elected Vice President of China's legislative Yuan: "The Chinese Parliament ... is still in session. But the urgency of the world situation . . . compels me to join forces with you today in this great international family." He told reporters earlier: "If Confucius were alive today, he would probably be here...
...Street." To his horror, he found 189 books listed under WORMS, only 22 under WORRY. Obedient to one of his favorite maxims ("Cooperate with the Inevitable"), Carnegie thereupon went to work from scratch. He read everything that "philosophers of all ages have said about worry." He read biographies "from Confucius to Churchill." He interviewed everyone from General Omar Bradley to Dorothy Dix. He spent seven years on How to Stop Worrying. "Let me warn you," says he, "you won't find anything new in it, but. . . you and I don't need to be told anything...
...ended with the war. In the course of a hectic service career Joe served under Chennault, became a young China hand, was interned by the Japanese at Hong Kong. There he made the most of the six months he waited for repatriation by learning to read the Analects of Confucius in the original...
...thinks, a "foregone conclusion," and once it is achieved, orthodox Christianity will be as old-fashioned as "parish-pump politics." Our descendants, as well as the descendants of our Oriental contemporaries, will be heirs to a religion and a civilization distilled from the teachings of many spiritual messiahs, including Confucius, Socrates, Christ, Buddha, Zarathustra and Mohamed...
...Coat for Cumshaw. But the ultimate protest did not take place in the Assembly Hall. It worked itself out in a cheap hotel in a grubby lane of Nanking's crowded red-light district (nicknamed "Confucius' Temple...