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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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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History
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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. – James Buchan

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Future
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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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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. – David Hume

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. – Steven Pinker

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Nature

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. – Edward Hopper

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Nature

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

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It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed. – Author Unknown

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At a time when nobody thought wed ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States. – Mitt Romney

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Time

The only prudence in life is concentration. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. – Groucho Marx

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