The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUFarming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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It 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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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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