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I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Activities Around Cases Contagion Down Enter Entirety Function Groups Grumpy How Mood Noticed Often Playful Serve Settle Similar Sleepy Sudden Them

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This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

~Franz Boas

Topics: Activities Actual Also Apparently Application Brought Clearly Developed Emphasized Idea Man Might Out Reasonable Reasoning Very Wallace Well Who Without

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One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

~Fred F. Fielding

Topics: About Activities Could Did Early Engaging Happening Illegal Learn More People Regret Stop Tried Very

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Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

~Frederick Reines

Topics: Achieving Activities Among Boy Each Each Year Eagle Eventually Leadership Membership Organization Rank Ranks Roles Rose Scout Scouts Through Undertaking Year

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Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

~Frederick Sanger

Topics: Activities Appeared Before Better Career Concentrate Could Decided Father Goal Going Had Initially Intended Interests Medicine More Possible Profession Single Study Suited Than University Which Would

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If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.

~Fritz Zwicky

Topics: Activities Any Because Both Communities Gone In The Past Large-Scale Lives Many Men Past Planning Small Things Thought Universal Vision Were Without Wrong

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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

~G. Hannelius

Topics: Activities Cheating Cutting Digital Downloading Easy Illegal Make May Other People Right Stuff Those

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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

~G. Stanley Hall

Topics: Activities Automatic Creature Environment Habit His Largely Less Man Many More More Or Less Stimuli

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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

~Galen Rowell

Topics: Activities Body Climbing Directly Even Involved Mean Mind Mountain Natural Natural World Observer Only Part Participant Philosophy Photograph Photographing Rather Some Than World

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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

~Gary Bauer

Topics: Activities Arts Degrading End Endowment Funds National Once Other President Programs Promote Subsidize Taxpayer Use Will

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