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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan

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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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James Buchan
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. – James Buchan

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Politics
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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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Wisdom
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. – Chinese Proverb

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Wisdom

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. – Leo Strauss

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Wisdom

Im someone whos done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. – Elizabeth McGovern

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Wisdom

A wholesome oblivion of ones neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Wisdom

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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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Meditation

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. – David Friedrich Strauss

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Christmas

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. – Aristotle

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Potential

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others. – Cynthia Heimel

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Men