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  • People motivated by fear do not act well.
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  • The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
    - Mark Kurlansky
  • By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms... and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.
    - Mark Kurlansky
  • I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.
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  • I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.
    - Mark Kurlansky
  • Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea.
    - Mark Kurlansky