Susan Block Quotes

#1. Peace through Pleasure

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#2. Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

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#3. Trust Kills Lust

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#4. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

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#5. Make Sperm Wars, Not Real Wars!

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#6. Puritans, like poachers, shoot to kill your inner bonobo

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#7. Studies are one thing, but then there's just the way bonobos make you feel. They're so "almost-human" on so many levels that science doesn't even know how to test yet. Just look into any bonobo's big brown eyes, and you may well feel like you're connecting with a living version of the Missing Link.

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#8. Love the Earth You Make Love On

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#9. The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.

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#10. Pleasure is the Root of All Good

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#11. A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation.

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#12. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

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#13. In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

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#14. What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

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#15. Release your Inner Bonobo

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#16. MILFs rule Bonoboville

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#17. Party like a bonobo!

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#18. Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

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#19. The ideal is the enemy of the real.

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#20. Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us - and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do - these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

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