"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

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"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Attention

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Global warming

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Time

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"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things."

Business

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Nature

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"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."

Cure

"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."

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