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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

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I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

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So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

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First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

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Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

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Nobody does anything for one reason.

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The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

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Motivations are too tangled and complex.

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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 28th, 1940

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