"Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun."

-- Ofir Drori

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“People read every thing nowadays, except books.”
“All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.”

Source : Bassui Tokusho (2013). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.112, Simon and Schuster
“If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.”
“I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.”

Source : Last words, October 16, 1946.
“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
“In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.”
“The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (2017). “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, p.52, Princeton University Press
“I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.”

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