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John Boyd Orr Quotes

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: September 23, 1880 - June 25, 1971

Topics

Communication Time Small Country Now

In a perfect world, you make a seamless transition from one great era to the next, but that rarely happens. I've studied these things: how do you go from the Aikman-Irvin-Smith Cowboys to the next era? I'm all for continuity. I wish we could have done it that way with Bill Polian, Jim Caldwell, Peyton.

Great World Wish You Perfect Done

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Wish Detroit I Wish Failing Quicker

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

Life Mother Time Happy People Think

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that.

Amitabh Bachchan

Life People Hardships Poverty Cinema

Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge

Experience Dream Difference Dreaming

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

Good Myself Day Space You Sometimes

I liked the give-and-take of a policy discussion in the community, with citizens. I didn't know that even took place, frankly, but I never dreamed it would be an enjoyable thing to do.

Community Place Know Never Policy

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Fear Myself Person Two Last Most

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.

Saying Thinking Behavior You Mean

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Children Talent Think Insight Out

If you don't think it's possible to win five golds, go talk to Michael Phelps.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Win Think You Go Possible Talk

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

Decision World Tax Income Tax High

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