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• All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

  Francis Brett Young

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

  Adolf Hitler

  Intelligent, Men, Imagine

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• We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail.

  Hal Abelson

  Learning, Mean, Ideas

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• It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Nature, Inspire

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.

  Gilbert Murray

  Sports, Fighting, Men

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• Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Food, Cooking, Comforting

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• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Men, Rocks

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• Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

  Sayyid Qutb

  America, Desire, Noise

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• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Roots, Mexican

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.

  T. H. White

  Believe, Humble, Animal

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

  Katharine Hamnett

  Fashion, Men, Primitive Man

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• Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

  Tanith Lee

  Executioners, Rite

  "Sabella".

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• You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself 'Samuel Conrad'. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat- as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Running, Twilight, Animal

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• Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

  Robert Graves

  Links, Fields, Language

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• We literally have some of us in the modern culture trying their best to stomp out every other way of life, really. People in tribes are depicted as completely primitive and crazy. The way that we live is very pigheaded and very unaccepting of other ways of life, especially in America.

  Mr. Lif

  Crazy, People, Trying

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• After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

  Simon van der Meer

  Taken, Done, Firsts

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• The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  Eubie Blake

  Song, Mistake, Believe

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• All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  Eubie Blake

  Song, Musician, Able

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• We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.

  Roy Sesana

  Children, Thinking, People

  Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

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• If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.

  Roy Sesana

  Brother, Book, Thinking

  Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

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• Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Fighting, Arms

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

  Michael Behe

  Men, Wind, Car

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• Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

  Max Muller

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.33, Book Tree

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• We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Past, Men, Personality

  "The Collected Works".

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• It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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