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Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
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I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
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What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involun...
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When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we l...
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If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, th...
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If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of othe...
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The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new mean...
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Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circu...
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One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biol...
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Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspe...
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Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but...
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I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, ...
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Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they...
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Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the c...
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The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditi...
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Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far en...
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I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've alw...
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Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neuron...
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It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against...
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Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their tru...
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I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all...
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Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, a...
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A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes...
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Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the ori...
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If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off imme...
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The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtle...
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The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, bas...
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Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. ...
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You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human soc...
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In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being k...
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It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. O...
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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, rang...
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas ani...
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Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follow...
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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test t...
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Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is...
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I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
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The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.
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We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the ac...
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The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly ...
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Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse
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I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looke...
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There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I pro...
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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks...
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Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
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The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human lau...
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The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy i...
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This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connecti...
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Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
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What you see is what you get.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
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Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
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hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON

From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
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[In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
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I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON

His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
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[10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
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Scale matters, to get the right ratio of R&D over sales.

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