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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there

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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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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War
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The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. – James Buchan

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Technology
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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History

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. – John Acton

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History

If a secret history of books could be written, and the authors private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! – William Makepeace Thackeray

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History

I want to go down in history. – Haile Gebrselassie

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History

Random Quotes

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: Im with you kid. Lets go. – Maya Angelou

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Life

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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Quotations

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. – Gertrude Stein

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funny

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the idiot voters because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, youre either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. – Ann Coulter

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Age