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• In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Friendship, Dog, Men

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.13, 谷月社

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• The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

  Alice Walker

  Art, Sight, Color

  Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

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• In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Stephen Leacock (1939). “Model memoirs and other sketches from simple to serious”

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• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Acceptance, Math, Night

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Skills, Boxing

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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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• I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Space, Illusion, Sophisticated

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• We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

  Debbie Harry

  People, Language, Made

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• I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Race, Civilization

  "Anderson Cooper 360°" with Carol Costello, transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2004.

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• Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But convictions, nonetheless.

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, Book, People

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.238, Penguin

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• The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Mean, Civilization, Class

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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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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• Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

  Albert Hadley

  Thinking, Style, May

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• If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

  Tori Amos

  Moving, Hands, Sorrow

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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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• We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

  John Astin

  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Expression, Discipline, Creative

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• Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

  William Dean Howells

  Found

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• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Humanity, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1406, Delphi Classics

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• We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Son, Men, Thinking

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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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• I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Soul

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hero, People, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.148, 谷月社

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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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• 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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