"Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology."

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Source : "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

Nina Fedoroff

#Technology Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Thanks Quotes

“But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.”
“My future depends mostly upon myself.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
“He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.”
“The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.”
“God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? "Your job is to..." And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”
“Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.”
“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.9, Macmillan

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