I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUMankind 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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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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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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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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People protect what they love.
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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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