#so

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#because #certain #certain degree #degree #engaged

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with. ↗

— Rita Dove

#grew #i #joy #me #means

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#ask #consequence #human #i #i think

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#human #individual #just #like #looks

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#cat #dog #done #feelings #had

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#eating-disorders #love #need #experience

You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#associated #charged #conduct #convicted #crime

There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences. ↗

— Anirban Bose

#life-lessons #philosophical #experience

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#break #corporate #doing #go #independent