Quote by James Buchan
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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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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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. – James Buchan

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Business
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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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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

History is the propaganda of the victors. – Ernst Toller

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History

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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History

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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History

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. – Carl Sagan

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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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