Frans de Waal Quotes
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
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My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.
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The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.