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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other…
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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it…
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a…
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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…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West…
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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races,…
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small…
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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical…
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese…
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
— Sri Aurobindo
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
— Sri Aurobindo
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold…
— Sri Aurobindo
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe…
— James Buchan
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art…
— Sri Chinmoy
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By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
— Sri Chinmoy
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