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Legendary Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn remarked that Marshall had “the presence of a great man. He doesn’t dissemble . . . He would tell the truth even if it hurt his cause. Congress always respected him. They would give him things they ...more
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“For much of the Communist era, scholars tended to look back on Sun as one more unsuccessful, reform-minded leader, and his Three People’s Principles as just another of modern China’s many dead-end political experiments. As one biographer wrote: “If Sun Yat-sen had one consistent talent, it was for failure.”
Orville Schell, Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

“I think the greatest difference between China and the West, which can never be made up, is that the Chinese are fond of antiquity, but neglect the present [whereas] Westerners are struggling in the present in order to supersede the past.”
Orville Schell, Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

“Chief among these headwinds is the rise of inequality that since 1970 has steadily directed an ever larger share of the fruits of the American growth machine to the top of the income distribution.”
Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

“him took place all over the country. And—for better or worse—his conviction that Chinese needed a protracted period of firm, authoritarian political tutelage before democracy could be risked has become the template for reform ever since. As”
Orville Schell, Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

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“Those Greeks and Romans,” he protested, “they are so overrated. They only said everything first. I’ve said just as good things myself. But they got in before me.”
David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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