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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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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

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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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There arent a lot of guys like me left. But Im a war horse. Ive been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going. – Joel Silver

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