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• Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

  Daniel Goleman

  Tasks, Needs, Attention

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• Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Volcanoes, Energy

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• Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Elements, Birth, Mystery

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

  Victor Salva

  Thinking, Primal Fear, Humans

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• I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still have deep, almost primal responses to the language of scripture, and I think that comes through in all my writing.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

  Garry Wills

  Loneliness, Artist, Creating

  Garry Wills (1979). “Confessions of a conservative”, Doubleday Books

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• Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed...the energies of enlightenment arises from the very same natural origins as those which give rise to our everyday passions and emotions.

  James H. Austin

  Passion, Roots, Giving

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• I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

  Etgar Keret

  Believe, Hatred, Emotion

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe when we do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don't worry about the consequences.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Oil, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.

  Robert Musil

  Religious, Struggle, Night

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• Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

  Arundhati Roy

  Men, Civilization, Feelings

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.308, Penguin Books India

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• The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Drama, Struggle, Fighting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages.

  Laurie Holden

  Character, Self, Leader

  Source: collider.com

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• The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Fall, Sound

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• Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

  Julie Czerneda

  Mean, Opportunity, Lunch

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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Knowing

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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• Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

  Sam Hamill

  Government, Sound, Culture

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• I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”

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• You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.

  Jean Klein

  Two, Silence, Perception

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• If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.

  Sengcan

  Spiritual, Struggle, Evil

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• It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

  Bob Mould

  Song, Thinking, Views

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• During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

  Ricki Lake

  Important, Surrender, Process

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• Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Essence, Burning, World

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• In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

  Jonathan Martin

  Vacation, Media, Punishment

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