Quote by James Buchan
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to re

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. – James Buchan

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Business
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. – James Buchan

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War
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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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It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor natures gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. – Jimmy Carter

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What a book a devils chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! – Charles Darwin

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But Im a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, Im going to make something out of it. – Maynard James Keenan

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen

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Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move. – Sun Tzu

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Troubles are a lot like people — they grow bigger if you nurse them. – Author Unknown

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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. – Charles de Lint

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. – John F. Kennedy

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Time