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For Forrest Dunbar and most Jews, seeing the yellow Star of David on someone's chest elicits the same feeling as seeing a swastika on a flag or the SS insignia on a uniform, it is a symbol of hate that reminds us Jews of the terror and horror we suffered. I believe it is a constitutional right to protest for your values. But I request that you do not use symbols that diminish the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust and the survivors who would like their children not to know the nightmare they endured. – Forrest Dunbar	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Although there are many circumstances in which humans utilize olfactory cues for communication, there is no authentic pheromone that has been chemically identified, i believe there is no classic sex pheromone in humans that elicits attractive behavior to the opposite sex. But there are probably crucial odors that affect each other's emotions - for example, a baby's head smell that parents sniff and feel happy, and a woman's axillary (underarm) odors that affect the emotions of males. – Kazushige Touhara	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This study now shows that radiation delivered at space relevant dose rates over extended times elicits adverse neurocognitive effects similar to our past studied using dose rates that were about 400 times higher. – Charlies Limoli	Found on CNN 4 years ago
[ Hopefully it ] elicits and encourages people to view coyotes in the wild... with a lens instead of a gun. – Camilla Fox	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago

For Forrest Dunbar and most Jews, seeing the yellow Star of David on someone's chest elicits the same feeling as seeing a swastika on a flag or the SS insignia on a uniform, it is a symbol of hate that reminds us Jews of the terror and horror we suffered. I believe it is a constitutional right to protest for your values. But I request that you do not use symbols that diminish the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust and the survivors who would like their children not to know the nightmare they endured.

– Forrest Dunbar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Although there are many circumstances in which humans utilize olfactory cues for communication, there is no authentic pheromone that has been chemically identified, i believe there is no classic sex pheromone in humans that elicits attractive behavior to the opposite sex. But there are probably crucial odors that affect each other's emotions - for example, a baby's head smell that parents sniff and feel happy, and a woman's axillary (underarm) odors that affect the emotions of males.

– Kazushige Touhara

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This study now shows that radiation delivered at space relevant dose rates over extended times elicits adverse neurocognitive effects similar to our past studied using dose rates that were about 400 times higher.

– Charlies Limoli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

[ Hopefully it ] elicits and encourages people to view coyotes in the wild... with a lens instead of a gun.

– Camilla Fox

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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