Robert Owen
Robert Owen
Robert Owenwas a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He worked in the cotton industry in Manchester before setting up a large mill at New Lanark in Scotland. In 1824, Owen travelled to America to invest the bulk of his fortune in an experimental 1,000-member colony on the banks of Indiana's Wabash River, called New Harmony. New Harmony was intended to be a Utopian society...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 May 1771
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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
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We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.
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For us, the direct benefit we think will be to introduce a wider range of students to all of the opportunities that are in aviation.
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We hope to make this an annual event.
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You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
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All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
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The hard part was after 22 years a lot of these people are like family, so it was more or less like a divorce, ... You go through the whole 12 steps of recovery. You are angry for a while, you blame people for a while and then you get over that and you are sad for a while, but now it is time to go on.
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The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.
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Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.
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It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.
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It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.
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There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
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The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.
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Never argue, repeat your assertion.