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World Quotes by John Boyd Orr
- As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only…
- 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…
- There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that…
- We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
- Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
- In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire,…
- Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
- However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is…
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach