"If good history is dispassionate history, it must……" — James Buchan
"If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside."
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James Buchan
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65 Quotes by James Buchan
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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…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a…
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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…
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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…
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit…
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that…
— Galen Strawson
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However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In…
— Walter E. Williams
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It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision…
— Antonin Scalia
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment;…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
— Paul Di Filippo
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Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one…
— Rajneesh
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be…
— George Will
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
— Abraham Maslow
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
— Simon Newcomb
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It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets…
— Bob Lutz
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous…
— Maximus the Confessor
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