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The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

Robert Ardrey

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Robert Ardrey
Age: 71 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 16
Died: 1980
Died: January 14
Anthropologist
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Ten
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Wonder
Miracle
Unprecedented
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Evolution
Risen
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Creatures
Cunning
Improbability
Science
Promise
Hardship
Ruthlessness
May
Civilization
Poems
Adaptability

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Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.
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Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
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If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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A human being is a problem in search of a solution.
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Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.
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What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.
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Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.
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What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.
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