Norman Borlaug Quotes
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.
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Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter articulated next summer.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
