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.

  Source: 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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