"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
-John Boyd Orr
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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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"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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"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
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"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."
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"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."
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