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• The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Missing, Society

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• I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

  Justin Cronin

  Kids, Obsessed, Planets

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• As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

  Richard Leakey

  Children, Unique, Parent

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• We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

  Richard Leakey

  Way, Facts, Should

  Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

  Norman O. Brown

  Religious, Money, Heirs

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press

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• There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

  Bruce Catton

  Running, Rowdy, Mask

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.3, Vintage

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• Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hair, Friendly, Together

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Swings, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

  Richard Griffiths

  Dad, Talking, People

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

  Guus Kuijer

  Laughter, Fear, Father

  Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hands, Mind, Tails

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The collected poetry of Aldous Huxley”

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• Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at a female dog.That's all, you've turned into an animal. Regain your humanity. Lower your gaze.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Dog, Mean, Animal

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• Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Missing, Links, Monkeys

  Najwyższy Czas! magazine, January 03, 2008.

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• Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

  Robert E. Howard

  Eye, Men, Forget

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.17, Del Rey

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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

  Light, Psychics, Evil

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• Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

  James Branch Cabell

  Dream, Animal, Men

  James Branch Cabell (2009). “The Silver Stallion”, p.226, Wildside Press LLC

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Twilight, Feelings

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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• Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

  William Penn

  Wise, Men, Cunning

  William Penn (1775). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.40

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• The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

  Malcolm Rifkind

  Party, Democrat, Solutions

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• A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

  Publilius Syrus

  Women, Homely

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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

  Powerful, Littles, Poverty

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• What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

  Roger Penrose

  Dog, Strong, Zoos

  "The Emperor's New Mind". Book by Roger Penrose, 1989.

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• Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Running, Benefits, Deeds

  "Rebirth and destiny of Israel". Book by David Ben-Gurion, 1954.

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• It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

  Spider Robinson

  Couple, Smart, Thinking

  "God Is an Iron and Other Stories". Book by Spider Robinson, 2002.

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• It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Eye, Thinking

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1492, Delphi Classics

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