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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
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
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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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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
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