AIC - Arthur Birling quotes

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Description of Mr Birling at start of play

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‘a heavy looking, rather portentous man’

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How Birling describes himself and his approach to running his business

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a ‘hard-headed’ man

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Statement about Germans' stance on war

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‘The Germans don’t want war’

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Statement about the likelihood of war

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‘there isn’t a chance of war’

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Dismissive attitude towards war

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‘fiddlesticks’ to war

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Description of something believed to be indestructible

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‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’

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Optimistic prediction about the future

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‘there’ll be peace, prosperity and rapid progress everywhere’

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Metaphor for community or society

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‘mixed up together like bees in a hive’

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Dismissive attitude towards community

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‘community and all that nonsense’

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Economic strategy or goal

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‘Lower costs and higher prices’