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• It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

  Sugata Mitra

  Years, Knowing, Obsolete

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• Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Men, Skins, Prisoner

  Osbert Sitwell (1977). “The Cruel Month”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Character, Men, World

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• The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

  Evan Esar

  Nature, Brother, Zoos

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• I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is the epitome of American excess, of American greed. I'm talking about a place called Cold Stone Creamery. Whoa. If you have not been there, the basic gist of Cold Stone is that they take ice cream and then they just go ape sh*t with it.

  Aziz Ansari

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Talking

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• Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

  Ian Caldwell

  Lost Love, Men, Thinking

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

  William H. Calvin

  Uplifting, Moving, Two

  William H. Calvin (2010). “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change”, p.90, William H. Calvin

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• ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

  Peter Singer

  Emotional, Thinking, Animal

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• I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.

  David James

  Sex, Upset, Drs

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• "Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Angel, Animal, Men

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• A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Race

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on drilling a born half-ape until people think they have made a lawyer out of him, while millions of members of the highest culture- race must remain in entirely unworthy positions; that it is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His most gifted beings by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to degenerate in the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs are trained for intellectual professions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Thinking, Race, People

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• We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes - the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Asian, Orangutans, Gorillas

  A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2003, p. 22,

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• I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

  Tracy Morgan

  Night, Fans, Watches

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• I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

  "Predilections" by Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 06, 1989.

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• On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Said, Damn, Expected

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• Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Aristocracy, Earth, Monkeys

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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

  People, Lines, Want

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher" by Brian Mockenhaupt, Esquire Magazine, March 2007.

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• The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

  Dana Stabenow

  Library, Steps

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• And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

  William Shakespeare

  Sloth, Court, Regions

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.378, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Sea, Space

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• Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

  Will Cuppy

  Looks, Orangutans, Teach

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• Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sleep, Firsts

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• Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

  Peter Kreeft

  Sleep, Oxymoron, Dies

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• Often sit alone happy happy
  Thoughts somewhat far gone gone
  Clouds circle mountain soft soft
  Wind through valley swish swish
  Ape in tree bounce bounce
  Bird in forest chirp chirp
  Time turns hair gray gray
  Winter is here sad sad

  Hanshan

  Winter, Hair, Wind

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