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The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
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Born: December 22, 1922
Died: May 6, 2015 (aged 92)
Bio: James Claude Wright, Jr., usually known as Jim Wright, was an American politician who served as the 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989, representing Texas' 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1955 to 1989.
Known for:
  1. The Nature of the Meadowlands (2012)
  2. RTI and Classroom Behaviors (2009)

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