Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."
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Chimpanzees
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Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist, Humorist
"Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others."
Russell Banks
Novelist
"Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee."
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"The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust."
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"Chimpanzees can be quite political."
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