Quotes with primates

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• 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
  British author (1940 - 1992)
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• People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.

  The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• everywhere
• descended
• important
• warranted
• telltale
• predator

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