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«If a monkey, a black dog, or a woman passes in front of a praying person, his prayer is nullified»
«A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.»
«[It] is not a monkey, not an ape and not a human, but it's a common ancestor of them all.»
Author: Russell L. Ciochon | Keywords: ancestor, ape, monkey
«An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men»
«An example from the monkey: the higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind»
«A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved»
Author: Indian Proverb | About: Chance | Keywords: branch, misses, monkey, The Monkey
«By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree»
«I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?»
«Charelton Heston and a monkey with a gun...Film at 11.»
Author: Eddie Izzard (Actor, Comedian) | Keywords: Heston, monkey
«Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.»

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