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In his conquest of power, Mao Zedong used military tactics derived from Sun Tzu, who lived around 500 BC;Confucianism, dating from around the same time, remains at the heart of China’s social thinking, despite Mao’s ruthless attempts to suppress it.

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But the patients are going to have to take drugs that suppress their immune system for the rest of their lives.

That, for centuries, we've inherited a view of human nature based on the notion that we're divided selves, that reason is separated from the emotions and that society progresses to the extent that reason can suppress the passions.

In a related German study, researchers used fMRI imaging to measure brain activity before and after injecting Botox to suppress smiling muscles.

Too bad nobody ever woke up to it, and they've been trying to suppress it since then.

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