"Up until the Depression, recession had a moral……" — James Buchan
"Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion."
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65 Quotes by James Buchan
James Buchan has 65 quotes on this site.
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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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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like…
— Zebulon Pike
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance…
— Teresa of Avila
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has…
— Seneca the Younger
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What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
— John Wolcot
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises,…
— Confucius
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes…
— Mencius
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I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me…
— Tim Duncan
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Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's…
— Vasily Grossman
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Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it…
— Steve Buyer
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