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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia,…
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
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Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients…
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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
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Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on…
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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101…
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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects…
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Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this…
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The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
— Jose Maria Aznar
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business…
— Tony Blair
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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks…
— John O. Brennan
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but…
— H. Rap Brown
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one…
— James Buchanan
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow…
— James Buchan
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I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense,…
— Madeleine Albright
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their…
— Fred Allen
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
— Carlos Slim
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an…
— Sun Tzu
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