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Men Quotes by Jacques Yves Cousteau
- However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national…
- Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
- There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won…
- When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can…
- From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface…
- The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
- When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
- No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
- The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the…
- What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
- Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
- For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive,…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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