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Here was Bill, heir to Iskander in all of his blond barbarous glory, equal parts courteous and cruel.
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They think it is a "barbarous relic, " as John Maynard Keynes described the gold standard, and a superstition rather than an investment.
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Today the price of what Keynes called the barbarous relic is the highest it's been since 1980, up 150% from its 2001 lows.
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When he wrote the Tract the classical gold standard already had been fundamentally gutted by the Genoa Accord of 1922 and, yes indeed, thereby converted into a barbarous relic.
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War, by its nature, is barbarous, grievous, and untamable.
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However, should the "barbarous relic" (as John Maynard Keynes mistakenly called it) stay in its current range in the months ahead, keep worrying, because the Federal Reserve will be destructively imitating the Bank of Japan.
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"It's an atrocious act of terrorism, against which the Italian government expresses its firmest condemnation, and which has no explanation, if not that of barbarous and blind violence, " a statement from Italy's foreign ministry read.
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Like Roosevelt, and many European leaders, Wilson had also believed that imperialism was contributing to a higher, more pacific civilization by bringing not only capitalist industry but also higher standards of morality and education to what had been barbarous regions.
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The food technology of Northern Europe took centuries to catch up, though an argument could be made that the tribes of Germania that Tacitus found so barbarous owed their eventual triumph to the stamina that came from cooking outdoors in a cold climate, and keeping their lungs intact.
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Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
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