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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

~Alex Shoumatoff

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DivX Plus Streaming is adaptive bit rate streaming solutions, which means it works by detecting a user bandwidth and CPU capacity in real time and adjusting the quality of the video stream accordingly.

~Alfred Amoroso

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Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in action sports, go snowboarding, skateboarding.

~Amy Purdy

Topics: Action Actually Adaptive Disabilities Get Go Help Help People Involved Nonprofit Organization People Physical Skateboarding Snowboarding Sports Up Which

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After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

~Amy Purdy

Topics: Adaptive After Again Computer Connect Could Entire Find How Just Just Something Knew Legs Looking Lost Needed Remember Right Schools Something Spending Wanted Year I Remember

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The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.

~Andrew Lo

Topics: Adaptive Change Depending Develop Economic Engaged Hypothesis Institutions Investors Like Markets Our Over Own Population Says Species Them Time

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The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

~Benigno Aquino Iii

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Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

~Bob Ney

Topics: Adaptive All People Belief Blind Braille Core Effective Equality Important Independent Knowledge Mobility Opportunity People Possible Security Technology Truly Use Who

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

~Charles De Gaulle

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Teaming up with Adaptive Studios and Shudder is a wonderful opportunity to support emerging filmmakers in finding the new horror icon. This is also a great chance to scare and entertain audiences at the same time.

~Clive Barker

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We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Accept Adaptive Along Behaviour Forms Friend Get Good Hear Just Leads Like Likely More Nationalism People Racism Sexism Social Something Species Us Want Whereas Which Who

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