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I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. – Jeremy Rifkin

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Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies. – Jeremy Rifkin

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We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didnt do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate. – Jeremy Rifkin

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Theyre now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. – Jeremy Rifkin

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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. – William O. Douglas

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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx

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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa

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Technologists provide tools that can improve peoples lives. But I want to be clear that I dont think technology by itself improves peoples lives, since often Im criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless theres commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, its for naught. – Jaron Lanier

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