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- I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.…
- However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national…
- There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of…
- If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
- The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for…
- Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks…
- Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going…
- Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
- Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
- The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the…
- What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
- We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -…
- Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
- The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
- All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide