"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 and he is free."

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Source : Time, March 28, 1960.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

#Ocean Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.”
“Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.”
“If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.”
“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”
“It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.”
“Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.”
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.”

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