China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesnt have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon. – James Dyson
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
