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John Boyd Orr

"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."

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Donna Grant

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

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Donna Grant

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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Donna Grant

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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Donna Grant

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Donna Grant

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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Donna Grant

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

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Donna Grant

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

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Donna Grant

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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Donna Grant

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

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Donna Grant

"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."

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John Boyd Orr
"As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies."

Science

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John Boyd Orr
"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."

Wealth

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John Boyd Orr
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."

Dictatorship

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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."

War

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John Boyd Orr
"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."

Age

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John Boyd Orr
"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law."

Civilization

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John Boyd Orr
"We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible."

Nation

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John Boyd Orr
"It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction."

War

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John Boyd Orr
"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods."

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John Boyd Orr
"Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure."

Knowledge

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