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The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
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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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I wake up saying, I'm still alive a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
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The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.
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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
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