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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.

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
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Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall
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If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.
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Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.
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It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.
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You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in.
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Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.
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Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.
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Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.
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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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The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!
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I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.
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There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.
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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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