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In her review of his work, “Man and his Mission, Australian writer Claudette Vaughan noted, “Some people would nominate Nelson Mandela as the most outstanding person alive. My vote would go to Philip Wollen.” The journal Cry, published in Russian by the Leo Tolstoy Centre of Ethics, celebrated the “Top 100 Vegetarians in World History.” Amongst depictions of Aristotle, Buddha, Plato, St. Francis of Assisi, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Einstein, Leo Tolstoy, Pythagoras, Voltaire, Bernard Shaw, Albert Schweitzer, and Leonardo da Vinci, was a picture of Philip Wollen. The following is an account of his work: “Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech” By Free From Harm Staff Writers | June 24, 2012
“Philip Wollen shakes the rafters of the auditorium with this 10-minute speech to the St James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre debate in Australia on May 16, 2012. The larger debate consists of six speakers, three that make the case for getting animals off the menu and three that make the case against it. Wollen is a former VP of Citibank and Australian philanthropist who is known to keep out of the limelight. But he sure rose to the challenge for this debate to deliver a huge performance and a powerful message. Bravo!” This is the transcript to the speech: ‘On behalf of St James Ethics Centre, the Wheeler Centre, The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, The Age, The City of Melbourne and the ABC, All of whom have worked together to make this event possible I would like to welcome Philip Wollen.' [Applause.]. Now hear Philip speak; King Lear, late at night on the cliffs asks the blind Earl of Gloucester “How do you see the world?”
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