“ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ”
- Stephen B. Leacock- Copy
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“ If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ”
- Stanley Garn- Copy
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“ From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word "stammer." I can't say it myself. ”
- Patrick Campbell- Copy
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“ If I refuse to trust the word of an honest man, I may reasonably expect that with me, at least, he will break faith at the earliest opportunity. ”
- J. G. Holland- Copy
- 983
“ One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back. ”
- John Edgar Wideman- Copy
- 325
“ If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time. ”
- Gary Player- Copy
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“ The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ”
- Barbara Tuchman- Copy
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“ I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents. ”
- Australian Aboriginal Elder- Copy
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“ It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. ”
- H.P. Lovecraft- Copy
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“ The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ”
- Frank Barron- Copy
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“ Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Examine the personality of the mother, who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being. ”
- Beata Rank- Copy
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“ Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture. ”
- Anandabai Joshee- Copy
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“ Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 806
“ It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ”
- Isadora Duncan- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ Balkans - that taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a universe like a brothel on fire the last primitives in Europe. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 3K
“ God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world. ”
- Bede Griffiths- Copy
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