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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 great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits…
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was…
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That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given…
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of…
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
— Unknown Author
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Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the…
— Bertrand Russell
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge…
— Albert Einstein
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
— John Fowles
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When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a…
— Susan Sarandon
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