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• I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

  Desmond Morris

  Angel, Men, Fellow Man

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• The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

  Heraclitus

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Respect

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• We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

  Desmond Morris

  Angel, Reality, Thinking

  Desmond Morris (1994). “The human animal: a personal view of the human species”, Crown Pub

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• While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, People, Red Hair

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Causes, Baboons

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• Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

  William Ralph Inge

  Journey, Men, Poor

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series 'Confessio Fidei'

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• We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

  Richard Leakey

  Men, Light, Connections

  "A Wealth of Human Fossils Could Soon Be Destroyed". Interview with Stefan Aust and Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. October 27, 2005.

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• All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Overcoming, Want

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Men, Inherit The Wind, Wrong Man

  "Fictional character: E. K. Hornbeck". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Man is more ape than many of the apes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men

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• What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Doe, Yardsticks

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• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

  Vance Havner

  Zoos, Civilization, Looks

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• Man is an ape with possibilities.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Men, Humanity, Possibility

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• They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

  John Adams

  Nuts, Worry, Political

  John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, Literature, Sides

  Mary McCarthy (2017). “Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979”, p.414, Library of America

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• The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

  Honore de Balzac

  Country, Paris, Trying

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• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Spring, Curious, Revelations

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Nature, Fall

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• Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

  Roddy McDowall

  Sports, Brother, Home

  "Fictional character: Cornelius". "Planet of the Apes", www.imdb.com. February 8, 1968.

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• The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

  George Santayana

  Irrational, Terrible, Humans

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.44, MIT Press

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• Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

  Abraham Cowley

  Country, Shapes, Fantastic

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.57

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• Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

  Thomas Mullen

  Angel, Laughing, Humanity

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• We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Serious, Planets, Living On

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.24, Ronin Publishing

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Essence

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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