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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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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.…
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water…
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that…
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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from…
— James Joyce
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I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the…
— Ronald Reagan
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go…
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If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a…
— Louise Thaden
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My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go…
— Charles Lindbergh
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You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my…
— Joan Fontaine
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled…
— Buzz Aldrin
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