In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common,... disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. T...hat was something of which I had personal knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane ...instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.... When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest heav...en, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished th...an you has been invited by your host...But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »