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

Other quotes by James Buchan

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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power
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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History
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan

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Peace
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History
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski

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History

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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History

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire

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History

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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History

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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. – Eli Siegel

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Death was like love, a romantic escape. – Brigitte Bardot

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. – Charles Dickens

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best

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. – Author Unknown

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Women