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" Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. "
Paul Watson
I Am
I Can
Now
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" I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan. "
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" I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. "
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" I don't think you really have to retire from what you do. "
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" There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. "
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" People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace. "
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" Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together. "
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" When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade. "
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" It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew. "
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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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" Social change comes through people. "
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" I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. "
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Put
Than
Actually
" 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 always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "
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Take
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" Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence. "
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" When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet. "
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" Documentaries make a difference. "
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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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Opposition
Shepherd
" In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers. "
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Africa
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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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Good
Disappointment
" I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. "
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" As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it. "
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Sea
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" People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct. "
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Beginning
Go
Law
" I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. "
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Left
Seen
Die
" I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations. "
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Sea
Storms
" Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. "
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None
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" Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. "
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" I don't care if I put people off. "
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