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«Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.»
«We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.»
Author: Desmond Morris
| Keywords:
investigated, investigates, investigating, species, survival, trick
«I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape»
«We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.»
Author: Desmond Morris
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consolation, End Of The Century, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, mess, mildly, term of office
«Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.»
«There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.»
«This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.»
Author: Desmond Morris
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unusual
«Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death»
Author: Desmond Morris
«it has been shown off, concealed, styled, cut, trimmed, extended, straightened, waved, put up, let down, colored and decorated in a thousand ways.»
Author: Desmond Morris
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