Nikolaas Tinbergen (Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen) Quotes

Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

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• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

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• Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

  

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• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

  

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• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

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• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  

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• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  

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• The UFC didn't want me to fight there so what could I do? We were unable to make a deal. They offered unacceptable conditions.

  

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• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

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• When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

  

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• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
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• Patrick is going to see that he made some real good things. He hit some deep balls and made some key plays for us, and that's partly what I'm referring to. And then he turned the ball over. We can't do that and Patrick knows that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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• We had a miserable first year (6-10 in 2004), and that's real hard on you. So you go in the second year knowing you've got to make something happen. Being able to get 10 wins, that helps a lot. It gives the whole organization confidence. If we hadn't gotten into the playoffs, it would've been a real downer. Getting in the playoffs was somewhat of a turning point for us.

  

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• I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

  

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• It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

  

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• All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

  

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• I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.

  

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• I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.

  

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• There was deep knowledge on the part of members of the Nation of Islam regarding the planning, in sight of the OAAU and the Muslim Mosque Incorporated regarding the events at the Audubon. They knew when they were going to be there, they knew what the schedules were.

  

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• It's a lot of stuff. People ask us what kind of model are we following. There is no model. We're creating one. There's never been anything of this magnitude. ... We've got 9,000 square miles of destruction.

  

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• Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

  

  Nikolaas Tinbergen
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