John Boyd Orr Quotes
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.
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He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
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The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.
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After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
