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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of…
— James Buchan
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In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.
— Edward Glaeser
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering…
— Henry George
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Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its…
— Godfried Danneels
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