"Man is a fraction of the animal world.……" — Robert Ardrey
"Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so unique as we should like to believe. And if man in a time of need seeks deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march."
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Robert Ardrey
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25 Quotes by Robert Ardrey
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial…
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know,…
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is…
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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have…
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to…
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master…
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
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Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
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At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have…
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Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an…
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Every thought is an afterthought.
— Hannah Arendt
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The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand.…
— Bill Walsh
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I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
— Gertrude Stein
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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
— Alan Cohen
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Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
— Andy Hargreaves
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing…
— Seth Godin
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Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library…
— Bertrand Meyer
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They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights…
— David Haye
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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
— John Stott
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