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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
Noam ChomskyAs social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.
Robert GreeneThe difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
Madeleine AlbrightThe solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.
Jeff BezosIt’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.
Noam ChomskyEvil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul SartreMan is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.
Mark TwainI’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Carl SaganDogs never bite me – just humans.
Marilyn MonroeAnimation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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