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...essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks for most Hindu religious leaders when he says: "By all means discuss your faith with us, share your views and your experience with us, but India would like to suggest that the true missionary is one who, by both example and precept, helps the other to live his own faith more perfectly, and not to forsake to the missionary's faith...
...worship of nature is as old as Chinese history. Confucius, the great precept-giver on manners and morals, said as early as 500 B.C.: "The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills." Lao-tzu, an elder contemporary of Confucius, added another dimension, proclaiming that underlying nature was an all-pervading spiritual force, which he called Tao, and likened to water...
...making priests' robes, Tessai was apprenticed in pottery-making, was encouraged in his scholarly interests as a youth by Rengetsu, a Buddhist nun famed for her verse. But from then on, Tessai was largely self-taught, spent the rest of his life carrying out the ancient Chinese precept: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." Though Tessai traveled extensively throughout Japan-including a visit to the Hairy Ainus in Hokkaido (Tessai sketched them humorously, looking like prime candidates for Cartoonist Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia)-and did drawings and maps for the government topographical office...
...Eisenhower implements his proposal, security will be the only asset left to the civil service. It occurs to us that security, while an estimable precept, is scarcely sufficient to draw "the right kind" of people into a career where such people are definitely needed...
...Bolsheviks!" he declared pugnaciously. "We stick firmly to the Lenin precept-don't be stubborn if you see you are wrong, but don't give in if you are right." "When are you right?" interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan-and the crowd laughed. Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats. "About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us. don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not. history...