Quote by James Buchan
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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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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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Money
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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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History
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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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Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth. – Clint Eastwood

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Society

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. – Tom Stoppard

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Society

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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Society

Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period. – Terri Guillemets

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Society

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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. – Eric Hoffer

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Discontent

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. – Imelda Staunton

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work

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe

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Morality

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. – Aldous Huxley

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Murder