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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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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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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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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan

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Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrushs eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The poetry of the earth is never dead. – John Keats

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. – Jacob Bronowski

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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – thats where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us were busy denying. – Sue Grafton

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When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. – Author Unknown

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Its a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. Im not going to drop the ball on my shift. – King Abdullah II

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion – Mormonism – has something way on the side thats completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion. – Patrick Wilson

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