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What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make. —Jane Goodall

“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist, United Nations Messenger of Peace

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