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When I heard about (the Broadway play) "Hair", I was kind of curious about the six naked primates on stage. So I called up the box office and they said tickets were $11 apiece. That`s an awful price to pay. I went into the bathroom at home and took off all my clothes and looked in the mirror for five minutes. And I said, `This isn`t worth $11`.

- Groucho Marx

I think it`s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

- Angela Carter

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

- Allen Merritt

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

- Allen Merritt

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

- Amy Wyatt

caused excitement recently when he uncovered evidence in China that indicates anthropoid primates may have developed fist in Asia rather than Africa.

- Andy Ku
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(But a meeting with Bishop Robinson would exasperate conservative evangelicals and primates from the developing world who see the bishop as a satanic influence. His consecration in November 2003 was described by the conservative American Anglican Council as a) grievous day ... The devil has entered our church.

- Anne Byrn