Quotations: General

	"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." --Will Rogers--

ATTITUDE, ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, JUSTICE
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ATTITUDE

AUTHOR: Rogers, Will
QUOTATION: "Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
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AUTHOR: Rubenstein, Arthur
QUOTATION: "Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any conditions."
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AUTHOR: Shaw, Bernard
QUOTATION: "The people who get on in the world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them."
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AUTHOR: Stevenson, Robert Louis
QUOTATION: "To be what we are, and to become
what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life."
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ENVIRONMENT

AUTHOR: Andrew Simms
QUOTATION: "Absence of evidence of harm is not evidence of absence of harm."
ATTRIBUTION: Debating the argument that because GM food has been consumed in the US
since about 1996 without apparent negative effects, it should be considered safe in the UK.
The Guardian, Monday Aug 4, 2003.
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AUTHOR: Andrew Simms
QUOTATION: "Almost everything scientists are trying to achieve by genetically modifying crops
can be achieved in other less risky ways. Whether the problem is pest or weed control, drought tolerance,
yield or nutrition, there are countless, though poorly supported, farming methods that could be used before
needing to open pandora's box of genetic tricks.
GM advocates seem only to have discovered the cause of poverty eradication now that they have something to sell."
ATTRIBUTION:
The Guardian, Monday Aug 4, 2003.

GENERAL

HEALTH

AUTHOR: Carl A. Hammerschlag
QUOTATION: " Symptoms are a way for your body to say 'Listen to me talk for a change.'"
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JUSTICE

AUTHOR:Stewart, Potter
Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
QUOTATION: "The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history.
At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home
and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."
ATTRIBUTION: Unanimous opinion that Constitution bars police
from electronic eavesdropping, 5 Mar 61
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