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James Buchan

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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.


— James Buchan


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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.


— James Buchan


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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.


— James Buchan


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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.


— James Buchan


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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.


— James Buchan


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


— James Buchan


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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.


— James Buchan


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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.


— James Buchan


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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.


— James Buchan


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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.


— James Buchan


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The Honourable James Buchan born 11 June 1954 is a British novelist and journalist. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College Oxford and began his career as a Financial Times correspondent writing from the Middle East Germany and the United States. Biography
Buchan is the son of William Buchan 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir and grandson of John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir the Scottish novelist and diplomat.

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