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"One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."

"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."

"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."
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"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem."

"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."

"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering."

"There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive."

"The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now."

"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."

"It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly."

"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is."

"A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level."
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