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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an expl

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 A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.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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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. – James Buchan

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Politics
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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan

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Change
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James Buchan
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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History
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

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History

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. – Ted Nugent

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History

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz

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History

The 80s were fabulous. The 90s sucked, and the 70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! Theres something thats just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and Im a loner. – Jennifer Sky

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History

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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. – V. S. Naipaul

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My role in society, or any artists or poets role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. – John Lennon

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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they cant get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. – Yul Brynner

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If guys dont respect themselves, they dont respect other people. Thats times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it dont take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. – Richard Petty

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