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Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick. -- J. K. Rowling
He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. -- Charles Darwin
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. -- Will Cuppy
Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts. -- Rick Riordan
Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine. -- Rick Riordan
[Footnote:] The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself. -- Will Cuppy
Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. -- Charles Darwin
I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. -- T. Boone Pickens
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful. -- Aldous Huxley
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon. -- Dov Davidoff
Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies. -- Alexander McCall Smith
There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune. -- Arthur Eddington
Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs. -- Rick Riordan
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon. -- Ann Coulter
The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now. -- George B. McClellan
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons. -- D. H. Lawrence
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul. -- Yann Martel
Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle. -- Peter Gabriel
I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically. -- Yannis Philippakis
In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs. -- Tom Robbins
I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running. -- Emanuel Cleaver

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