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Nevertheless, chimpanzees were clearly motivated to obtain rewards for themselves, but not to provide rewards for other group members.


Joan Silk

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JOAN COLLINS Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and ...
JOAN COLLINS So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes t...
JOAN JETT I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which ha...
JOAN MIRO I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to e...
JOAN RIVERS Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the b...
JOAN HALIFAX Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have h...
JOAN CUSACK I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know...
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