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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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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To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. – James Buchan

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Money
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. – James Buchan

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Business
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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. – William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. – Richard Dawkins

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Nature

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or were atheist. – Anthony Hopkins

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Nature

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine

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Random Quotes

I love David Caruso. I know its not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think hes interesting. – James Denton

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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families and the countrys economic development. A girls lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children. – Sachin Tendulkar

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Education

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Senses

A dialogue is not made up of two monologues. – Howard E. Short, quoted in United Church Herald, Vol.10, 1967 [See also above qu

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Speaking