"A zebra does not change its spots."
"And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis."
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Source: Chatter at 40,000 Feet by Howard Kurtz, www.washingtonpost.com. June 15, 2000.
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