"What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity."

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"What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity."

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"The future and eternity are two entirely different things."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present."

Germany Kent, Roman Soldier

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"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm."

Food

"Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through."

Government

"The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place."

Government

"We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."

Age

"Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows."

Will

"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."

Public

"Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops."

Food

"You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect."

Science

"We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't 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."

Age

"Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this."

Time