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If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
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Have you run over anybody?
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Oh, what, a strip club?
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Are you all one family?
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Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.
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Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?
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Just take the thing! Just take the fucking picture!
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I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.
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Is it made with Liffey water?
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A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
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We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
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Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages.
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For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
On Tom Jones, 1969: "It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs."
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On Ethiopian art, 1965: "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons."
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Whatever happens, don't give up and don't despair. Results may not be immediately apparent, but you may have touched a receptive chord without knowing it. Even the most unsympathetic and unenlightened politician, industrialist or bureaucrat begins to take notice when a lot of people write about the same subject.
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Just take the f___ing picture.
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Bits are beginning to drop off.
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It is no longer sufficient simply to quantify the elements of existence as in old-fashioned material economics; conservation means taking notice of the quality of existence as well...
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Looked at in that light it may well turn out that money spent on proper pollution control, urban and rural planning and the control of exploitation of wild stocks of plants or animals on land and in the sea, is the less expensive alternative in the long run... The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.
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A threat to any part of the environment is a threat to the whole environment, but we must have a basis of assessment of these threats, not so that we can establish a priority of fears, but so that we can make a positive contribution to improvement and ultimate survival.
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Wildlife - and that includes everything from microbes to blue whales and from a fungus to a redwood tree - has been so much part of life on the earth that we are inclined to take its continued existence for granted...Yet the wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.
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Occupation:
British Royalty
Born:
June 10, 1921
Died:
April 9, 2021
Quotes count:
70
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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