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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern
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- Andy Rooney
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- Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Andy Rooney: life dates 1919 to 2011. Wikidata Q138846, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138846 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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