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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."

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

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Amber Hurdle

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

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"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it."

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Amber Hurdle

"And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian."

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Amber Hurdle

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

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Amber Hurdle

"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida."

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Amber Hurdle

"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."

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Amber Hurdle

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

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Amber Hurdle

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so."

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Amber Hurdle

"And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year."

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