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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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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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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. – James Buchan

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Poetry
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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History
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War
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My youth passed at the time of the countrys reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. – Lech Walesa

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War

Im finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. Im finding myself really angry over whats happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. Im angry about cap and trade. And Ive been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs. – Gary Johnson

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We are not at war against Islam. – Barack Obama

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War

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. – Saul Bellow

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change. – Dan Quayle

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Change

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools. – Jonathan Sacks

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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. – Jane Welsh Carlyle

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She kept asking me if the stories were true. I kept asking her if it mattered. We finally gave up. She was looking for a place to stand and I wanted a place to fly. – Brian Andreas, Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings, 1993

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