„If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. Most do so directly, by breeding. In the few examples that don't do so by design, they do it indirectly, by helping a relative with whom they share a great number of their genes. And in as much as the legacy that human beings pass on to the next generation is not only genetic but to a unique degree cultural, we do the same. So animals and ourselves, to continue the line, will endure all kinds of hardship, overcome all kinds of difficulties, and eventually the next generation appears. This albatross is over 30 years old, she's already a grandmother, and this year once again she has produced a chick. She will devote the next 10 months of her life looking after it. She has faced the trials of life and triumphed, for her little 2 day old chick the trials are just beginning.“

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— David Attenborough

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The Trials of Life (1990)

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— Brunello Cucinelli Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist 1953

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— Scott Moir Canadian figure skater 1987

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— Sarah Dessen, könyv This Lullaby

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— Derek Landy Irish children's writer 1974

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— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910

Forrás: The First Step (1892), Ch. IX

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— Derren Brown British illusionist 1971

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— Steve Stewart-Williams 1971

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— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946

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— Halle Berry American actress 1966

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