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• It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

  Kevin Bacon

  Zoos, Doe, Knows

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• And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

  Russell Banks

  Clever, Reading, Writing

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• Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mirrors, Looks, Literature

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• You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic.

  Moshe Feiglin

  Speak, Democratic, Teach

  "Among the Settlers" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 31, 2004.

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• I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

  Angie Stone

  Kings, Reality, Men

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• Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Men, Evolution Of Man, Wells

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.548, Penguin UK

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• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Way, Remarks

  Robert Benchley (1951). “My ten years in a quandary and how they grew”

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• Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Animal, Play, Together

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• Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Long, Muscles

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• It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Children, Taken, Years

  "PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter James Carroll, 1996.

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• Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Respect, Thinking, Dirt

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 253), 1994.

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• Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

  Esther Forbes

  Ridicule

  Esther Forbes (1998). “Johnny Tremain”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey

  Matsuo Basho

  Years, Mask

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.3 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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• I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Communication, Swimming

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mind, Needs, Problem

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

  Yann Martel

  Sea, Water, Perfection

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home.

  Marjorie Celona

  Dog, Art, Home

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• Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Book, Interesting

  "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

  Andrew Keen

  Creating, Mediocrity, Digital

  "The Cult of the Amateur". Book by Andrew Keen, June 5, 2007.

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• Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

  Gautama Buddha

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Men

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• Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Welcome

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.

  Tammara Webber

  Wind

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.35, Tammara Webber

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• Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

  Eric Schmidt

  Analysis, Type, Produce

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• I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Buddhist, Thinking, Ideas

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