Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highly appreciate the motto on the gates of your university. It reads, "Enter to grow in wisdom" and "Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind." Young people in China have also a motto; that is: "Keep the motherland in heart and serve the people with heart and soul." I hope that in the cause of building our own countries and promoting world peace and development, younger generations of China and the United States will understand each other better, learn from each other, enhance the friendship and strive for a better future...
Jiang closed his address on a positive note, referring to the motto over Dexter Gate, one of the gates to Harvard Yard, that reads: "Enter to grow in wisdom; depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
...Young people in China have also a motto: Keep the motherland in heart and serve the people with heart and soul," Jiang said. "I hope that in the course of building our countries, younger generations of Chinese and Americans will learn from each other...and strive for a better future...
...does not require much reflection to reveal that almost every image in the book's 600 pages--a dry well, a haunted house, a faceless man, a dead-end street--stands in some way for a hollowed-out Japan whose motto might be, "I don't think, therefore I am." Again and again, characters say, "I was like a walking corpse" or "I was now a vacant house" or "I felt as if I had turned into a bowl of cold porridge." Murakami's storytelling ease and the pellucid, uncluttered backdrop he lays down allow moments to flare up memorably...
...short third section is much slower, perhaps taking its cue from Jennens' admonition that we "Keep...still the same in look and gait/ Easy, cheerful and sedate." This final section is certainly sedate, almost verging even on morose, culminating in the final couplet of the work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite so enchanting a subject as either the joie de vivre of L'Allegro or the melancholic beauty of Il Penseroso. Nor could any claim that Jennens' verse stands quite equal to the Milton it seeks...