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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait u

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – 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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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan

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Age
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science – steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains – none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last centurys attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. – 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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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. – Daisaku Ikeda

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. – Plato

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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

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