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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

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John Grierson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1898
Born: April 26
Died: 1972
Died: February 19
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