Quote by James Buchan
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to cha

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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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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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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History
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan

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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. – Joseph Addison

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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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Change

Changing and actually improving are two quite different skills. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Change

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