John Boyd Orr Quotes
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd Orr
Quotes to Explore
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
Zebulon Pike
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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.
Karl Marx
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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.
Laura Riding
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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?
Vernon Howard
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I'm mortified to have to pay 50%! While I use the NHS, I can't use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are shit, and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from the album 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.
Adele
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
Bertrand Russell
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I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.
Al Jourgensen
1000 Homo DJs
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I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.
Allen West
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Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically, you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.
Jane Roberts
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How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.
Michael Heisley
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd Orr