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Louis Leakey

"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."

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"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."

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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

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"Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man."

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"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent."

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"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations."

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"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."

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"Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name."

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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."

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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

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"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."

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"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."
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"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago."
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"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."
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"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
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"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."
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"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
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"I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England."
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"The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years."
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