We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
JANE GOODALLFrom the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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