Frans de Waal Quotes

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Frans de Waal

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• I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

  

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

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• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

  

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• My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

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• I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  

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• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

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• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

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• My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

  

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• For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

  

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• I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

  

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• I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

  

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• It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.

  

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• It was a symbolic moment when 'Moonlight' literally took the Oscar out of 'La La Land's' hand.

  

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• I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

  

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• Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

  

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• Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • May