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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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 A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.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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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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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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I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. – Temple Grandin

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Now were in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – were doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day. – Barack Obama

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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. – Michel Montaigne

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I know that my race must change. – Chief Joseph

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