In their eyes, Confucius is just an easy-to-remember symbol that can easily trigger the association of ideas, " Zhang said."

张涛说，“孔子只是一个简单易记、又容易引发联想的符号。”

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It had been summoned by an association of ideas.

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Petersburg in 1905, Daniil Kharms was one of the founders, in 1928, of OBERIU, or Association of Real Art, an avant-garde group of writers and artists who embraced the ideas of the Futurists and believed that art should operate outside the rules of logic.

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