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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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war. – 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

Category:
power
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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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History is the devils scripture. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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History

The study of history is the playground of patriotism. – George M. Wrong

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History

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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History

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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History

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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. – Bob Graham

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The baby bounced gently off the wall of her uterus. She opened her dressing gown and put her hands back on her belly. It moved again, like a dolphin going through the water; that was the way she imagined it. – Roddy Doyle, The Snapper

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Pregnancy

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. – Pierre Corneille

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power

Winners never quit and quitters never win. – Vince Lombardi

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Wisdom