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The smallest leaves and twigs will bend and break... If our criteria was 'longevity', however, we would be safest to bet on the two great branches of World History, the East and the West.

— Thorsten J. Pattberg The East-West Dichotomy (2009)

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

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