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«With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.»
Author: Anthony Storr
| Keywords:
destroys, exception, habitually, homo, Homo sapiens, members, sapiens, vertebrate, vertebrates
«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.»
«There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| Keywords:
heterosexual, heterosexuals, heterosexual person, homo, homosexual, if not, impulses, mixture, mixtures, practices
«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Reason
| Keywords:
endowed, homo, Homo sapiens, pin, sapiens, unreasonable, with reason
«Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Happiness,
People
| Keywords:
bloom, homo, Homo sapiens, kidding, manages, sapiens
«Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.»
«The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month»
Author: Robert Lee Hotz
| Keywords:
antiquity, apparent, arisen, Celtic, gene, genetics, homo, Homo sapiens, interbreeding, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, oxford, peoples, people of England, Red hair, sapiens, suggested, suggests, The Gene
«The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
consistency, desolation, detect, detecting, detects, homo, Homo sapiens, provides, sapiens, stranger, thread
«WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abjection, construction, form of worship, homo
«Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
admittedly, as a matter of fact, boot, conditioned, experimental, for that matter, heterosexual, heterosexuals, homo, homosexual, react, sexually, subjects, subject matter
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