"Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being……" — Jane Goodall
"Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have."
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138 Quotes by Jane Goodall
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers…
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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will…
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Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we…
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I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
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I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with…
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It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of…
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I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
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I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She…
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Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have…
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They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we…
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More Arguably Quotes
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It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the…
— Graydon Carter
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There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to…
— Diablo Cody
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...
— Richard Dawkins
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In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a…
— George Weigel
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The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going…
— Alistair Darling
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The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of…
— Marton Csokas
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
— Steven Pressfield
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Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
— Don Baylor
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Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.
— Simon Conway Morris
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When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the…
— Jim Leach
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