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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
Environmentalist
Ethologist
Primatologist
University Teacher
Writer
Hampstead Village
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Dame Jane Goodall
Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall
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You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.
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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.
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We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.
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I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.
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Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.
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However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.
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I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.
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In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.
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You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.
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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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Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.
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At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.
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We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.
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It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
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You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.
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My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.
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Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say yes and not think too much about the consequences.
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I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.
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