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James Buchan has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to…
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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.
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been…
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they…
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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.
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be…
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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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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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
— Ken Burns
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Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
— Reinhard Bonnke
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History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with…
— Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe.…
— James Trefil
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Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history…
— Benjamin Hooks
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The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
— James W. Loewen
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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
— Thomas Hardy
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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading
— Thomas Hardy
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