Quote by James Buchan
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from B

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britains belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. – James Buchan

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

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Wisdom
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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. – Germaine Greer

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I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. – George McGovern

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway

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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. – Susan B. Anthony

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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. – Elie Wiesel

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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. – Elbert Hubbard

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My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I cant figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I dont deserve to be an owner. – Michael Symon

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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. – Charlie Chaplin

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