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1. "You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery." ~ Norman Borlaug

2. "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." ~ Norman Borlaug

3. "Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history." ~ Norman Borlaug

4. "The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind." ~ Norman Borlaug

5. "Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind." ~ Norman Borlaug

6. "Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply." ~ Norman Borlaug

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

8. "Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level." ~ Norman Borlaug

9. "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." ~ Norman Borlaug

10. "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." ~ Norman Borlaug

11. "Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods." ~ Norman Borlaug

12. "The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world." ~ Norman Borlaug

13. "During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago." ~ Norman Borlaug

14. "There are no miracles in agricultural production." ~ Norman Borlaug

15. "The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace." ~ Norman Borlaug

16. "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." ~ Norman Borlaug

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It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."
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