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- It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders:…
- More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China…
- There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number.…
- If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a…
- It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in…
- The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the…
- If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to…
- My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle…
- In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the…
- Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S.…
- At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the…
- The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when…
- Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle