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Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
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Hampstead Village
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Dame Jane Goodall
Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall
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It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.
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I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.
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I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.
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