"If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do."
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"I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another."
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"And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger."
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"To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities."
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"I want to change awareness."
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"The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families."
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"Being evil is something that only humans are capable of."
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"I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle."
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"I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people."
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"We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons."
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"I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that."
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"The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!"
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"Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices."
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"We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right."
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"We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know."
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"A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference."
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"You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything."
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"When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back."
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"Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values)."
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"Animals have personalities and minds and emotions."
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