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"If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles."
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"But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place."
Government
"There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs."
Family
"If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles."
History
"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted."
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"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."
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"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it."
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"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."
Globalization
"It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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