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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can

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

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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace. – Norman Borlaug

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Peace
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Mans survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. – Norman Borlaug

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Food
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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. – Norman Borlaug

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Hunger is a good cook. – Proverb

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Food

Clearly, Americas dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but its likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well. – Andrew Weil

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Food

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household. – Paul Lynde

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Food

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution – warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain – are even more deadly here. – Jeff Goodell

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Food

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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. – Bob Filner

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Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. – Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. – Theodore Roosevelt

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