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Western nations act as if they 'own' the globe, history, and all material objects.

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

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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.

The East-West Dichotomy (2009)

The time is ripe for Chinese thought as a global quest for cultural pluralism.

Knowledge is a Polyglot (2019)

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

Shengren (2011)

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