"After the First World War the economic problem……" — John Boyd Orr
"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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28 Quotes by John Boyd Orr
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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on…
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities…
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers…
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This…
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations…
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world…
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers,…
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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that…
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political…
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole…
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Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under…
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There are no miracles in agricultural production.
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
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