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Adam Smith: Let us suppose that the great empire of China was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe would react on receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity.

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The problems that we face is that the current method used to prevent and treat those dreadful diseases, such as genetic control, exploiting natural sources of resistance, crop rotation or seed treatment, among others, are still limited or ephemeral.

If we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward, it can get us through the dreadful moments and it can give us real inner power.

There's a dreadful fungus that's moving through the world that's called the chytrid fungus, and it's nailing frogs all over the world.

It was dreadful.

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