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" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "
Paul Watson
Thinking
Eating
People
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" Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade. "
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" Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. "
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" I don't think you really have to retire from what you do. "
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" My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me. "
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" The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy. "
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Sea
" I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me. "
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" Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities. "
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Shepherd
" 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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" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "
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" Social change comes through people. "
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Through
Change
" I'm thankful to have time to write. "
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Time
" The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales. "
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Film
Made
Whales
" I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate. "
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Strange
Violence
" You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. "
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Ever
Reality
Many
" If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court. "
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You
Want
Going
" Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. "
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Pay
You
Sometimes
" I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity. "
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View
Everything
Earth
" Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. "
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Without
Planet
Live
" I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. "
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Interested
Law
Not Interested
" When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet. "
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I Was Born
People
" Ships are expendable; the whales are not. "
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Ships
Whales
" NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing. "
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Going
Fishing
About
" An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. "
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Japan
American
Citizen
" People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. "
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People
Action
" I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent. "
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Education
Parent
" I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "
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Me
Take
Work
" Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on. "
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Ships
Actions
Been
" Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. "
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Way
Back
Party
" The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover. "
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Used
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