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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the hig

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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War
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science – steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains – none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last centurys attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. – James Buchan

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Science
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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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I have several writer friends, but I dont involve them in my work process. Im more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them. – Jodi Picoult

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. – Aristotle

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Business

Hell, there are no rules here – were trying to accomplish something. – Thomas A. Edison

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The fellow who says hell meet you halfway usually thinks hes standing on the dividing line. – Orlando A. Battista

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Business

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I look at my little girl and I wonder what shes going to be and what shes going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be. – Jake Owen

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dad

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. – Albert Camus

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I remember an article, I cant recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing. – Claude Chabrol

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Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. – E.V. Lucas

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