"Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals."

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Source : "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

April Gornik

#Real Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I have achieved an inner freedom.”
“Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.”
“The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.”
“The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.”
“It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.”
“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”
“"X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It seems that we can't seem to get beyond this level of tribalism that has been around for thousands of years. Anything we fear we tend to destroy.”
“listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.”

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