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This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#believing #duty #elective #elective office #error

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#because #between #brain #brains #certainly

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#aggressive #around #behavior #certainly #human

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #being #destroying #environment #fantastic

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#episode #equally #fight #good #quick

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#back #because #become #could #degree

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. ↗

— Herman Melville

#incidentally #know #let us #our #out

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#draft #every #fundamental #just #league

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#around #away #bitterness #echo #element