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Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to

Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – James Buchan

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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. – James Buchan

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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. – James Buchan

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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Im the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. – Herbert Hoover

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Legend remains victorious in spite of history. – Sarah Bernhardt

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