"Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey."

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To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

— Henry A. Kissinger