James Buchan Quotes
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
Quotes to Explore
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we’ve traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Everybody loves monsters.
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(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
