No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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