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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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Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.…
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If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live…
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Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of…
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If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments…
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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them…
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The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and…
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Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
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Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in…
— James Stalker
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The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God…
— Rob Bell
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I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance…
— Yann Martel
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