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John Boyd Orr

"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."

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"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."

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Amber Hurdle

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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Amber Hurdle

"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."

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Amber Hurdle

"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

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Amber Hurdle

"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

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Amber Hurdle

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

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Amber Hurdle

"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."

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Amber Hurdle

"But facts abound to the affirmation that most Christians in my nation Nigeria and all around the world, would rather pray to God to come and fix their country than do something about it themselves."

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"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 inevitable."
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"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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"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
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"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."
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"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."
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"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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"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent."
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"The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion."
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"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 alternative to war is the United States of the World."
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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 over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods."
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