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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
Paul Watson
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Paul Watson
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 2
Activist
Environmentalist
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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We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.
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