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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#civilization #deserted #fear #helpless #make

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. ↗

— James Buchan

#business #depend #higher #interest #profit

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

#band #never #only #played #rolling

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabia #belief #completely #day #every

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. ↗

— James Buchan

#assertive #commodities #crude #crude oil #dictation

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#another #answer #away #being #does

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. ↗

— James Buchan

#doubt #empire #fall #more #much