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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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