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Quote by James Buchan
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan

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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. – James Buchan

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History
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The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. – James Buchan

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Technology
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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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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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History
[H]istory gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions. – Hajo Holborn, History and the Humanities

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History

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track. – Lisa Murkowski

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Lack of knowledge… that is the problem. – W. Edwards Deming

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For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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