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"The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!"
"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"
"Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future."
"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"
"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!"
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"You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect."
"The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here."
"What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting."
"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to."
"A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd."
"In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."
"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"
"We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population."
"One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this."
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