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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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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. – James Buchan

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Future
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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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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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The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. – F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution

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History

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. – Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke

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History

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. – Mao Zedong

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History

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. – Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History

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History

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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. – Rafik Hariri

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My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend. – Tiger Woods

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When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. – Steffi Graf

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Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan. – Ingrid Newkirk

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