We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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People protect what they love.
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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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