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Quote by Norman Borlaug
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations,

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers – mostly small and humble – who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. – 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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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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Food
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We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food. – Kathleen Sebelius

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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our childrens mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean. – Sitting Bull

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Food

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then theres this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things. – Nadia Giosia

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Food

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and Im probably going to write about it in a different way. – Alex Kapranos

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Food

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Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. – Louis Brandeis

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Pessimists—Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust. – Paul Chatfield

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And Im going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, well have some cures and some breakthroughs. Id like to think Im going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! – Jim Valvano

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