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Orangutans Quotes

Orangutans look straight into your soul.

Orangutans look straight into your soul.

Willie Smits
Soul, Looks, Orangutans

Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

Will Cuppy
Looks, Orangutans, Apes

‎'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.

Jana Oliver
Orangutans, Arms, Demon

Orangutan are very weird animals but they look very soulful.

Dave Barry
Animal, Looks, Orangutans

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.

Willie Smits
Baby, Orangutans, Humans

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

Ben Jonson
Men, Smoking, Orangutans

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

Richard Dawkins
Orangutans, Apes, Evolution
Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes - the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.

Richard Dawkins
Apes, Asian, Orangutans
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2003, p. 22,

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Terry Pratchett
Night, Work Out, Orangutans
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.70, Random House

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