John Boyd Orr Quotes
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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Just know what's inside your food.
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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
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I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
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I am not advising my readers to refuse to have their children vaccinated, since you now have to take vaccination into consideration because of the prominence of it in society. It is very possible, however, that science itself will in time discover the unfortunate side effects of many such procedures and begin to reevaluate the entire subject.
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A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
