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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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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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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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Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan

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History
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. – William Butler Yeats

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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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Wisdom

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. – John Webster

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry is a totally different art than film. – Stan Brakhage

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