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01 / belief
“Broadly speaking, I agree. I think there’s a distinction. The difficulty is, I’m unpackaging .”
02 / belief
“I think the Americans and British don’t do as good a job of historical movies compared to French, Japanese, or many other cultures.”
03 / belief
“A final thing is the Chinese minority Manchu state. I think that really shapes their vulnerability.”
04 / belief
“We’re contrasting the experience of what we think . . . Europe, or the West, even today, doesn’t conform to our liberal ideals.”
05 / belief
“Again, I’m going way over one sentence. I think that’s the bottom line, what we have.”
06 / belief
“For example, there are many EU nationals currently residing in Britain, and I think Theresa May was pretty bad in not immediately granting them, basically, permanent leave to stay.”
07 / uncertainty
“If we look at economic miracles or effervescences, I don’t know how many of them arise in the capital region, in the political center, and how many arise in peripheral regions.”
08 / prediction
“English ambassadors are being killed. But once they overthrow the shogunate and restore the emperor, they’re able — partly I think because it’s a cohesive territory — to develop this modern state which can respond to the West.”
09 / prediction
“Because I think eventually, the 13th century, the Commercial Revolution in the 12th century, is a high point of expansion, of new cities being founded in northern Europe, of Italian merchants going to the Middle East.”
10 / evaluation
“Because it seems to me that very weak states, like, say, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, are too easily captured by a few nobles or vested interests.”
11 / evaluation
“I think my quick answer would be that rules in Britain are very different than rules outside Britain.”