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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

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Paul Watson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: December 2
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Naval Officer
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City of Toronto
Paul Franklin Watson
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Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
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In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
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We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.
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We go after unlawful activities.
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It doesn't matter what is true it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.
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I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
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This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.
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We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.
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A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
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Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
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The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
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There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.
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Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.
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I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
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They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
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Social change comes through people.
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Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
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In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.
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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
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Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.
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