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Been Quotes by James Buchan
- Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to…
- For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear…
- One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid…
- Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's…
- Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business…
- Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour