Popular Quotes by James Buchan

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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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• Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

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• Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

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• Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

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• Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

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• Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

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• In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

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• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

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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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