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Rose George has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either…
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Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny…
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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are…
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He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his…
— George Orwell
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The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all…
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If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us.…
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I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to…
— Charles Dickens
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My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as…
— Rose George
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One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.
— Lena Headey
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