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Quote by Norman Borlaug
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. – Norman Borlaug

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Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal. – Norman Borlaug

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Technology
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Norman Borlaug
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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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Food
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Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and cant do to describe something like war or history. Im not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. – Haruki Murakami

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle

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I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest were going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate thats not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. – Stephen Harper

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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. – Alan Dershowitz

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