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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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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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History
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan

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Age
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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Society
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. – James Stockdale

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History

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. – Edward de Bono

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History

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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History

Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. – W.R. Inge, Assessments and Anticipations

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History

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Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind. – Terri Guillemets

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Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each others food. – Jean Baudrillard

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