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Charles Darwin has 291 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all…
— Joe Biden
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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
— Jim Bishop
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It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
— Muhammad Ali
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I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
— Dian Fossey
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I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla…
— Isaac Asimov
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I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish…
— Sam Manekshaw
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to…
— Mike Tyson
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Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers,…
— Dian Fossey
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
— Jared Diamond
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They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and…
— Pat Derby
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I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the…
— Simon Pegg
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