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John Boyd Orr Quotes

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Peace Unity World Transition

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Minnesota Only Raised Governor Ran

Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the cutter who turns it into a beautiful massage. And that's like human beings. They go through a lot to be who they are in front of you.

Beautiful Roads Diamonds You Earth

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

Empathy Hurt Show Some

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined.

Die Remember Week Early Sitting

I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group as a country we all study and know the history and then never study again past the age of 10. So I think we have these things we believe are true, that are just not true about what an audience wants.

Soledad O'Brien

Age History Past People Believe

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Transportation Places Being Going

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

God Journalism New Kind Up Forever

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Mary Augusta Ward

Father Home Grandmother Fox Her

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

Work Time Design Inevitable Years

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

Exercise Rules Numbers Authority May

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Great Poetry Against About Thing

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

Pride You Islands

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