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I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide…
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,…
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Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the…
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The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
— Albert Camus
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One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and…
— Unknown Author
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation…
— Thomas Naylor
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In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long…
— Hal Higdon
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
— A J Liebling
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the…
— January Jones
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Certainly from the ????standpoint of a Republican, it’s a winner. Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election. The way…
— Rick Santorum
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I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to…
— Skylar Astin
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There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see…
— Roger Ebert
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My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out…
— Steve Aoki
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