"They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there."

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Source : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books

Pat Derby

#Loyalty Quotes #Equality Quotes #Whales Quotes

“I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.”
“Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?”
“Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?”
“I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs”

Source : E. P. Thompson (1963). “THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS”
“Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use”
“When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”

Source : Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)
“It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.”

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