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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The truth is that few know the truth."

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Amber Hurdle

"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

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Amber Hurdle

"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"

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Amber Hurdle

"If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen..."

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Amber Hurdle

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Books can kill you, while you are reading."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

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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
"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without."

History

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John Boyd Orr
"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."

Power

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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."

Nature

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

Society

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John Boyd Orr
"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction."

Science

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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
"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
"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
"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."

Time

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