"You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening. I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form."

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Source : Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

Morarji Desai

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“On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.”
“I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“I mainly try not to be afraid.”
“Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.”
“The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.”
“Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.”
“The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.”
“The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.”

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