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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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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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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan

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Change
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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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History
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies. – Thomas Carlyle, On History

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History

You dont hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. – Stephen Ambrose

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History

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm

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History

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. – Rick Warren

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History

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It aint as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. – Colin Powell

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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. – Thomas Huxley

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sad

Ive never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. – Arsenio Hall

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In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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