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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.


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There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?



The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.



You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.



Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.



Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.



Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.



Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.



This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.



Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.



Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries





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This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.



We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

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We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

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We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.



I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.



The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.



There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.



Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.



Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.




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