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Tag Name "Apes" (186)

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In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
Al Roker
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Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
William Winwood Reade
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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
Maurice Sendak
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Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.
Adolf Hitler
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I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
Adam Ant
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You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.
David Fincher
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The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
Ofir Drori
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The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
Frans de Waal
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
Peter Kreeft
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The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
Aldous Huxley
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It is absurd to ape our betters.
Aesop
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
Diane Ackerman
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Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
Joan Crawford
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.
Philip Jose Farmer
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
Terry Pratchett
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The devil is God's ape!
Martin Luther
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The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.
Brian Aldiss
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Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.
Frans de Waal
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It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Mitch Hedberg
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It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
Mick McCarthy
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I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
Thomas Huxley
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
Robert Ardrey
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