"My belief, for what it is worth, is……" — James Buchan
"My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences."
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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were…
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are…
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday…
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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused…
— Julia Cameron
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The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to…
— John Allen Paulos
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A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists…
— William Broad
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The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices,…
— Unknown Author
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and…
— Samuel Crompton
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
— John Fowles
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make…
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