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A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the 'cradle of Western civilization' remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories.

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Harvard has de facto become a Chinese outpost.

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Division turned out to be humanity's strength, togetherness its arms.

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Star Wars is Chinese Taoism.

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Yes, I am vulgar and fearless, and loudly indifferent to convention and limitation.

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We must begin to find the untranslatables in each culture and return them to world history.

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Let us build the fairest construction the world has ever seen - the global language.

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Capitalism forces nations to compete for market shares, natural resources, and human capital. Less obvious so, they also compete for names, brands, and terminologies.

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Few people realize that the Bible discourages people from studying foreign languages.

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The Chinese dragon 'long' is essentially a force of the good.

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As a rule, for any society that is single-mindedly interested in its own promotion and thus survival, it would have to have a huge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in.

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Of all the cultures that have disappeared from the world, not a single farewell letter or suicide note has been unearthed.

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Asia is the unifying one, while the West is the destructive other.

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The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive.

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The vocabularies in the world add up, they do not overlap. Translation is something else.

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The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history.

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The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years.

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Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?

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Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.

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Calling Confucius a philosopher is the wrong classification. Like calling a whale a fish.

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