"Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more……" — Frans de Waal

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• As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,… — Diane Ackerman
• The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac
• Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female… — Brandon Boyd
• We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one… — Geraldine Brooks
• I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be… — Helena Bonham Carter
• What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like… — William Shakespeare
• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Conformity is the ape of harmony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish… — Carl Linnaeus
• I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau
• Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being… — Jared Diamond

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