"I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side."

-- Frans de Waal

#Support Quotes #Allies Quotes #Males Quotes

“Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.”
“Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.”
“There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Dec 20, 2010
“I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,”
“My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.”
“I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.”
“I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.”
“Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.”

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