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1. "Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can." ~ John Boyd Orr
2. "Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope." ~ John Boyd Orr
3. "The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war." ~ John Boyd Orr
4. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
5. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
6. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
7. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
8. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
9. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
10. "In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants." ~ John Boyd Orr
11. "When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions." ~ John Boyd Orr
12. "There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty." ~ John Boyd Orr
13. "Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat." ~ John Boyd Orr
14. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
15. "Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival." ~ John Boyd Orr
16. "Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge." ~ John Boyd Orr
17. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
18. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
19. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr
20. "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." ~ John Boyd Orr

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There are two truths," said Katie finally. "As a mother, I say it would have been a terrible thing for a girl to sleep with a stranger--a man she had known less than forty-eight hours. Horrible things might have happened to you. Your whole life might have been ruined. As your mother, I tell you the truth. "But as a woman..." she hesitated. "I will tell you the truth as a woman. It would have been a very beautiful thing. Because there is only once that you love that way."
Author: Betty Smith

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