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"For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."

"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."

"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."

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"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply."

"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."

"Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries."

"Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply."

"Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry."

"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."

"The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind."

"The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world."

"Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level."
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