#closes

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. ↗

— Layne Staley

#child #closest #death #devastated #enough

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#against #agreed #allies #canada #closest

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat. ↗

— Michael Finley

#challenge #championship #championship team #closest #ever

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

#closest #culture #deep #deep way #express

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#being myself #closest #competition #decided #discovery

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. ↗

— Jean Paul

#clearly #describes #discloses #his #man

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone. ↗

— William Petersen

#anything #closest #except #getting #grissom

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bed #been #closest #doing #dream

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#anything #because #children #civil #closest