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"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
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"To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed."
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