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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

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#cease #country #evil #good #good people

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. ↗

— James Buchan

#barrel #benighted #days #dependent #europe

You never toot your own horn. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#never #own #you #your

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. ↗

— James Buchan

#contain #does #importance #information #like

Hunger makes a thief of any man. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#hunger #makes #man #thief

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. ↗

— James Buchan

#chances #conditions #despots #each #east

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#burn #cast #fingers #freedom #furnace

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