“Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.”
Source: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.35
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Original: Tarih yazmak, tarih yapmak kadar mühimdir. Yazan yapana sadık kalmazsa değişmeyen hakikat, insanlığı şaşırtacak bir mahiyet alır.
Source: As quoted by Hasan Cemil Çambel in T.T.K. Belleten (1939), Vol: 3, no: 10, p. 272, Turkish Republic Ministry of Culture http://www.kultur.gov.tr/TR,25417/tarih.html

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