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Niall Ferguson has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of…
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American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward…
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It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's…
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No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
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The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.
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It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer…
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A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
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As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
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Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.
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Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end…
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For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the…
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When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.
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The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it…
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by…
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every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing…
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Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in…
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I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…
— Niall Ferguson
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