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Jane Goodall

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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Anger Easy Simplicity Stop Yourself
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Animal Human Thinking
Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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Nature Win
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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Prayer Strength
Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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Destroy Home Intellectual Walk
Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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Believe Human Myself Sin Worst
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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Choice Gift Ourselves Place
That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
JANE GOODALL

Hope Listen Live Ourselves Place Start World
I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
JANE GOODALL

Dog Love Myself Perspective Thinking
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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Decision Difference Philosophy World Yourself
Peace starts within.
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One Liner Peace
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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Animal Endurance Live Love People Suffering Worth
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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Change Last Right Value
It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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Deep Difficult Oppression Woman
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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Care Help Nature Save Understand
I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
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Believe Enough Feeling God Greatness Ideas Myself Power Spiritual
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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Feeling Myself True
And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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Beginning Excitement Life Myself Time
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Difference Play Role
Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
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Life Luxury Myself Necessary Thinking Tolerance
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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Myself Support Talk Voice
I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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Animal Different Myself People Remember
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Achievement Dream Forget People
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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Career Myself Nature Science
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Animal Myself People Savage
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Animal Death

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