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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
Biologist
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Film Director
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Marine Biologist
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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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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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. 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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People protect what they love.
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In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per 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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
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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 was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
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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.
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Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.
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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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In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
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If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
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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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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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