“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change.”

— Jane Goodall

Subject: Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist http://www.dailysummit.net/says/interview260802.htm, interviewed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)

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British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934

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