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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern c

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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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

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

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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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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. Theyre a piece of history, someones statement and ideas of life. – Mike Mills

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The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. – Alfred A. Montapert

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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. – John le Carre

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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! – Camille Paglia

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Im bad on Valentines Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine oclock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. Im in ToysRUs all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. – Jamie Foxx

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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. – Friedrich von Schiller

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