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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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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
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Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of…
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When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus,…
— Arthur Koestler
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions…
— Mac Thornberry
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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
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A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of…
— Ernest Moniz
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard…
— Walt Whitman
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If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only…
— John D. Barrow
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many…
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