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I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 11
Died: 1997
Died: June 25
Biologist
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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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To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.
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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
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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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