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"There are no miracles in agricultural production."
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"If you can see the invisible, God will do the impossible."

"And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah."

"I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry."

"When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle."

"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."

"As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased."

"I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it."
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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."

"Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past."

"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."

"Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless."

"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."
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