#void

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. ↗

— Hu Shih

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#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

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#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

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#anything #avoid #i #offend #out