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Jeremy Rifkin

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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Amber Hurdle

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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Amber Hurdle

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

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Amber Hurdle

"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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Amber Hurdle

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to."

Food

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Jeremy Rifkin
"The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"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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Jeremy Rifkin
"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."

Life

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Jeremy Rifkin
"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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Jeremy Rifkin
"In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."

Environment

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Jeremy Rifkin
"A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd."

Creativity

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Jeremy Rifkin
"They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether."

Technology

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