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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.

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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