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.

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Nature
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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
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• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
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  • Music
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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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  • Black

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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  • Men
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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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  • Truth

• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

  Dan Simmons
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  • Truth
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• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

  

  Patrick Kane
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  • Help
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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.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
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  • 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.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
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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.

  

  Daley Thompson
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  • Day

• 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.

  

  Oliver Platt
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  • Like

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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  • Writing
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• Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

  

  A. C. Benson
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• It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

  

  Joe Torre
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• When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

  

  Broderick Crawford
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  • Hope
  • Picture

• In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
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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.

  

  Frans de Waal
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