“Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.”
— James Buchan
Author: James Buchan
Category: history
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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
— Angela Carter
Author: Angela Carter
Category: history
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“If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.”
— Terry Eagleton
Author: Terry Eagleton
Category: history
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“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”
— Lord Acton
Author: Lord Acton
Category: history
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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“Strip malls are history.”
— Jeff Bezos
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“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Category: history
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“I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.”
— Atom Egoyan
Author: Atom Egoyan
Category: history
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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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“There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.”
— Kevin Rudd
Author: Kevin Rudd
Category: history
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“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”
— Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Category: history
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