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Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather tha

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. – William Winwood Reade

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On the Sixth Day, God created man, the sort of result you often get when you go in to work on a Saturday. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. – Author Unknown

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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character… by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. – Carl Linnaeus, 1788

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