If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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People protect what they love.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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