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We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

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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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The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
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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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It's funny but when young people say to me what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business? My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.
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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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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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