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“During the eleventh century, men at the court of Song Dynasty China came to imagine in a new way the political entity to which they belonged. They started to articulate with far greater precision its spatial extent – which they now saw as bounded by natural topographic features as well as by the historical Great Wall – while simultaneously de-emphasizing an older theory of sovereignty premised on the idea of universal empire.”
― Nicolas Tackett, The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

“que d’autres enfants que les nôtres puissent s’enchanter de réciter : « Tâche que les tasses de thé tachetées que tu as achetées soient attachées et tassées » !”
― François Hauter, Le bonheur d'être français (Documents)

“The idioms also revealed that Chinese shared a barnyard bawdiness with American English. My favorite was “taking off your pants to fart”—wasted effort.”
― John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

“poker is an incredibly mathematical game that depends on making probabilistic judgments amid uncertainty, the same skills that are important in any type of prediction.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction