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Jeremy Rifkin

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

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

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."

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Amber Hurdle

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

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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."
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"Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through."
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"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."
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"Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows."
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"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."
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"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."
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"You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences."
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