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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: 73
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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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.
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We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.
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You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
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WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.
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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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Social change comes through people.
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Earthworms are far more valuable than people.
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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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Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
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Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.
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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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Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.
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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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Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die
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I’ve got no criminal record.
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The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
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