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• In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

  Richard Matheson

  Heart, People, Veins

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not.

  Richard Evans Schultes

  People, Chemistry, Wonder

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• I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist
  The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid
  I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot
  I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit

  Aceyalone

  Giving, Hip Hop, Shapes

  Song: The Guidelines, 1998

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• Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

  Robert Barron

  Atheist, Struggle, Writing

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• Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

  Charmian Clift

  Women, Loss, Development

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• A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

  D. W Brogan

  Country, Japan, Roots

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• There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, People, Connections

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Reality, Views

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Doe, Village

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• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  Hamlin Garland

  Love, Peace, Nature

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• Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Real, Adventure, Yellowstone

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• He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.

  Albert Speer

  Games, People, Annoyed

  Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Thinking, Simplicity, Effort

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• How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

  Donna Karan

  Spiritual, Memories, Powerful

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• But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Voice, Church, May

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• The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods

  Ralph Linton

  Technology, Political, Development

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• Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about...  I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.

  Werner Arber

  Cells, Together, Molecules

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• The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Political, Honor, World

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• I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Children, Mean

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in battle. This is the kind of language a soldier understands. When he believes that he will be welcomed in this manner in the afterlife, he will be willing to give his life, he will be enthusiastic about going to battle and not fear death. You may call this primitive and you may laugh about it, but it is based on deeper wisdom. A religion must speak a man's language.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Beautiful, Stupid, Believe

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• Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable.
  Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered.
  Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.

  William Stringfellow

  Talking, Giving, Listening

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• Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Civilization, Needs

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Return, Socialism, Conditions

  Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley (2011). “The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B”, p.531, Cambridge University Press

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• The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

  Christopher Hyatt

  Government, Ideas, Majority

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