"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."

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Source : Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

Desmond Morris

#Successful Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Unusual Quotes

“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
“As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.”
“I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.”
“Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.”
“When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.”

Source : "Before Being An NBA Superstar, LeBron Was Just 'Bron'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 14, 2009.
“Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my tenets don't permit me to veil Nor is it any good trying to make friends through the women - if they were allowed to see me they would veil before me as if I were a man. So you see I appear to be too female for one sex and too male for the other.”
“All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.”
“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”

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