"I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment."

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Source : Lecture to Oxford Farming Conference, www.marklynas.org. January 3, 2013.

Mark Lynas

#Sorry Quotes #Important Quotes #Movement Quotes

“All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand be inspected, whether dream or vision be seen, whether marking of entrails or mad inspiration be consulted, there must be a Celestial Figure first erected, by the means of whole indications, together with the conjectures of Signs and Similitudes, they endeavour to find out the truth of what is desired.”
“The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.”
“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.”
“The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.”
“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”
“I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.”
“There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery”
“It's great to be young and be a Yankee!”

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