“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
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Jane Goodall 48
British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934Related quotes

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Quid enim refert, quantum habeas? multo illud plus est, quod non habes.
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, bk. 12, ch. 2, sect. 13; translation from Riad Aziz Kassis The Book of Proverbs and Arabic Proverbial Works (Leiden: Brill, 1999) p. 159.
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