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Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Bad Because Boom Came Congo Ended Fruition Hippies Ironic People Preventing Really Started Studies Studying Sudden Then Us Warfare Were World

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Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Actually Animals Because Best Best Friend Breeds Certain Course Dog Dogs Experiments Follow Following Follows Friend How How Much Man Many Much Obviously Reason Rules Them Well

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The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Affection Because Emotions Ever Fill Furry Give Homes Mammals Offer Our People Reason Respond Say Something Want Way Whole Will

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It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Animals Attention Because Behavior Cats Dolphins Domestic Each Fail Get Hard Jump Little Make Normally Other Out Pay Precisely Show Similar Simultaneously Spontaneously Teach Things Together Try Two Water Which Will You

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Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Because Create Economies Going Gold Important Local Miners Much Rather Sustainable Than Tourism Tourists Up

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Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

~Frans Van Houten

Topics: Because Cycle Does Ecosystems Efficiency Everything Exist Grows Nature Never-Ending Purpose Waste

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Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.

~Frans Van Houten

Topics: Attractive Because Become Categories Certain Heath Hence Innovative Invent Less Lot Low-Cost Matters Mature Our Power Product Put Really Technology Television Us Wanted Where Whereas Work

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When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.

~Frans Van Houten

Topics: Became Because Ceo Growing Health Longer Made Mature Needs Radical Really Segments Technology Were World Worried

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If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.

~Franz Beckenbauer

Topics: About Because Buy Came Cent Club Could Developments Eastern Football Germany He International Law Middle Middle Eastern Munich Must Per Stay

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The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?

~Franz Beckenbauer

Topics: Afford Anything Because Better However Important Important Thing Mighty Money Most Most Important Thing Stadium Team The Most Important Thing Us Use Useless Would

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