Quote by James Buchan
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was s

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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To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. – James Buchan

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Money
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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. – James Buchan

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Business
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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If a mans character is to be abused theres nobody like a relative to do the business. – Alexander Pope

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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. – Albert Einstein

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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. – Japanese Proverb

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. – Robert Browning

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For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. – Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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