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“In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.”

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Peter Piot is a prominent expert in the field of public health. Born on February 17, 1949, he is renowned for his contributions to the research and control of AIDS. more

“Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to become champion jockey was unswerving. He worked night and day, day and night to do it. You must have tunnel vision to become champion jockey: you must almost block everything else out, and he did that perfectly.”

Night Race Brain Vision Determination Block Champion Tunnels Day And Night Riders Jockeys Tunnel Vision

Author:Steve Cauthen

“An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.”

Bigs Loses Loss Animal

Author:Daniel Pauly

“In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.”

People Ifs Persons Ends Happens Morning Five Sea Six Sells Fishes Pounds Going Out Coming Back Indonesia Rice Java Fisheries

Author:Daniel Pauly

“I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.”

Ideas Water Animal Quiet Clean Shellfish

Author:Daniel Pauly

“Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.”

Chickens Justified

Author:Daniel Pauly

“If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.”

Ifs Thinking Children Being Loved

Author:Daniel Pauly

“The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.”

Whole Economy Failing Crisis Fisheries

Author:Daniel Pauly

“Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.”

Should Eating Driving Restaurants Benign Sushi Tuna Tuna Fish

Author:Daniel Pauly

“People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.”

People Knows Past Source Don't Trust

Author:Daniel Pauly

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