"Civilization today reminds me of an ape with……" — Vance Havner

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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
• 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
• It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
• Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he… — William Ralph Inge
• A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and… — Adolf Hitler

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