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

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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History

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace. – Bernard Baruch

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History

WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens

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History

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The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up. – George Lamming

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We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. – Paul Ryan

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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things dont go well. – Jim Rohn

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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you cant abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol. – Carre Otis

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