"Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Natureâ€™s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the worldâ€™s most emotionally human land mammal."

-- Daphne Sheldrick

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“A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We are not beautiful because we fit the popular ideal of beauty, and we are not ugly or unattractive because we donâ€™t measure up. Our beauty as human beings is not derived from ourselves. It comes from a beautiful God.”
“It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.”
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”
“She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.”
“You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject.”
“It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
“Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.”

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