"Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships……" — Rose George
"Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of countries foreign to their owners. The benefits are obvious: lower taxes, laxer labor and safety laws."
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45 Quotes by Rose George
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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…
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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…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a…
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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…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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