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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 Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
— Lester R. Brown
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I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after…
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However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will…
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or…
— Nicholas Stern
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no…
— Patricia Marx
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And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and…
— Berenice Marlohe
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with…
— J. G. Ballard
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Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline…
— Paul Oakenfold
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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude.…
— David Stern
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Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my…
— Hu Shih
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I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,'…
— Eliza Coupe
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The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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