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Tag: actions speak louder than words

Posted on May 2, 2016

Monkey See, Monkey Do

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer

Makak neonatal imitation
“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
from His Burial Too by Catherine Aird

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Sideburns, for example, are named after the sideburn-wearing General Ambrose Burnside.
Customer: give me burnsides!
Barber: (lights blowtorch)
Customer: wait, what?
—The Ambition of a Potato

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