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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

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Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – 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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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like The Beggars Opera – the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters. – Peter Mullan

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