"Civilization as it is known today could not……" — Norman Borlaug
"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply."
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Norman Borlaug
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30 Quotes by Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug has 30 quotes on this site.
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but…
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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy…
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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are…
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
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There are no miracles in agricultural production.
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions…
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of…
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Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
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Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right…
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To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife.…
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
— Norman Borlaug
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them…
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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so…
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children…
— Margaret Chan
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
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The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate…
— Hillary Clinton
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I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and…
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