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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisd

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

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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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power
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan

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Peace
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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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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. – Pierre Charron

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Wisdom

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. – Knut Hamsun

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Wisdom

The beginning of our destruction started the day we began destroying ancient wisdom. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Wisdom

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. – Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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Wisdom

Random Quotes

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

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Humor

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. – Thomas Browne

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Death

The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor. – Author Unknown

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Debt

Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. – Terri Guillemets, 2007

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Nature