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" I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. "
Paul Watson
Did
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" 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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" Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. "
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" If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean. "
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" 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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" Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. "
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" We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly. "
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" No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy. "
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" Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. "
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" I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. "
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Eat
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Fishing
" I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race. "
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Ego
Race
You
" All confrontation is based on deception. "
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Confrontation
Based
" 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
" The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. "
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Reason
Fact
Stop
" I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades. "
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Reading
Child
Friend
" That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them. "
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Celebrities
Ignore
Media
" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "
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Population
Growth
Immigration
" Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together. "
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More
Cats
House
" Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. "
Paul Watson
Hurt
Nobody
Property
" The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. "
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Tragedy
More
Money
" My clients are the whales and the seals. "
Paul Watson
Whales
Seals
Clients
" An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. "
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Japan
American
Citizen
" NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing. "
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Going
Fishing
About
" A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. "
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Integrity
Fish
Swimming
" The sealing industry is dying. "
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Industry
Dying
Sealing
" We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. "
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Stop
Driving
Flying
" I'm not really a fugitive. "
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Really
Fugitive
" There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit. "
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Condemn
Crew
" We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. "
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Diversity
Plants
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" Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. "
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English
None
Bargain
" 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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