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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
Activist
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Naval Officer
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City of Toronto
Paul Franklin Watson
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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 have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
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Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
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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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Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
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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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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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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
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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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I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws
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Earthworms are far more valuable than people.
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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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If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
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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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