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John Grierson
John Grierson
British Director
Born: Apr 26, 1898
Died: Feb 19, 1972
Becomes Good Matter Society Think Will
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The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. John Grierson
Life Strikes More More And More Became Affected Village
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. John Grierson
Happiness Good School Nothing Other Philosophy Aberration Some Spirit Case Oneself Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Never Learned Than Any Human Taught Common Common Good Anything Regarded Which Us Human Spirit
We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure. John Grierson
Freedom State Our Adventure Built Personal
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done. John Grierson
Way Critical Having Only Imperative Results Through Masses Quick Done May Manipulation Thing Symbols
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. John Grierson
Training World Matter Will Corporate Worst Purely Only Fact Cultivation Lines Very Personal May Where In Fact Sensibility Cooperative
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. John Grierson
Education Men Miserable Satisfied Think Thinking Given Make Became Were Effect Very Less Pays Received
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. John Grierson
World Focus Three Think Universe Our Hundred Hundred Years Distinguished Objective Given Individual Had Him Doing Years Discovery Did Middle Middle Ages Ages Exploration Playground
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. John Grierson
Important Though More Wrong Perilous Opinion Understand Opinions Times Than Often Happens Conflicting Which Act Right Two
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. John Grierson
Achieve Society Entering Neither Would Would-Be Individual Individual Initiative Absorb Mere New Without Nor Loss Process Which Central Capitalist View Interim Planning Function Initiative Socialist

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