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“As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of …” — Chen-Ning Yang
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
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