Frans de Waal Quotes
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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Great men marry great women.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.
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A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
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If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.
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The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.
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Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
