Frans de Waal Quotes
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
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I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
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We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
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By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.
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That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
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It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
