The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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