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• The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now.

  George B. McClellan

  War, Intelligent, Government

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• The baboon is driving,” I noted. “Should I be worried?

  Rick Riordan

  Driving, Worried, Should

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

  Dov Davidoff

  Knowledge, Self, Joints

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• We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, World, Strange

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

  Peter Gabriel

  Kissing, Animal, Tunes

  FaceBook post by Peter Gabriel from Nov 10, 2012

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• If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

  James Scott Bell

  Writing, Each Day, Quota

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• I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wizards, Sticks

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• I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Reading, Quests, Sacred

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Amos clapped his hands. “Khufu!” I thought he’d sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three feet tall with gold fur and a purple shirt came clambering down the stairs. It took me a second to realize it was a baboon wearing an L.A. Lakers jersey.

  Rick Riordan

  Khufu, Hands, Names

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Children, Food

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• Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.

  Rick Riordan

  Nuts, Sky, Goddess

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• If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Gentleman, Stronger

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.73, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")

  J. K. Rowling

  Wizards, Lines, Sticks

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• Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.

  Rick Riordan

  Khufu, Secret, Legs

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.

  Frans de Waal

  Males, Female, Mates

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Agh-uhh!” the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn’t completely cover his multicolored rear.

  Rick Riordan

  Lakers, Jersey, Stairs

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Butterfly, Wings

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• Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

  Rick Riordan

  Medicine, Luck

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• I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu’s lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp for munchies. “Dude.” I sat up groggily. “Not cool.” “But he gave you a lovely hairdo,” Sadie said. “Agh-agh!” Khufu agreed.

  Rick Riordan

  Sleep, Eye, Khufu

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• I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.

  Rick Riordan

  Morning, Khufu, Houston

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.292, Penguin UK

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• On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win—grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing. Oh…and the players were all baboons.

  Rick Riordan

  Basketball, Team, Winning

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.

  Yann Martel

  Fall, Animal, Ostriches

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Running, Elephants, Joy

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• My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.

  Giordano Bruno

  Believe, Hero, Son

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.

  Matt Ridley

  Dream, Lying, Book

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