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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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. – James Buchan

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Politics
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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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Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – James Buchan

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History
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I never hurt nobody but myself and thats nobodys business but my own. – Billie Holiday

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The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban

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A shady business never yields a sunny life. – B. C. Forbes

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I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business. – Betty White

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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. – Corita Kent

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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. – Bryant H. McGill

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