Quote by James Buchan
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or

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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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. – James Buchan

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History
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. – 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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Other Quotes from
Future
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. – Sophocles

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Future

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. – Doug Coupland

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Future

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. – Corrie Ten Boom

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Future

Im a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me. – Nicole Kidman

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Future

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God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody. – Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. – Christopher Hitchens

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War

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. – John Stuart Mill

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Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldnt turn down any of that. – Jon Hamm

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cool