"We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels."

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Source : Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

Robert Ardrey

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“All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.”
“The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.”
“The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.”
“Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.”
“The true seeing is when there is no seeing.”
“You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.”
“This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.”

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