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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 | top
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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 | top
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia. Ahmed Ben Bella | top
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Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. Charles Buck | top
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented. Paul Cezanne | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. Hedda Hopper | top
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Primitive societies without religion have never been found. William Dean Howells | top
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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 | top
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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics. Louis Leakey | top
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. Norman Mailer | top
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The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. Marc Maron | top
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. Adam Michnik | top
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The data which is used to date for making the conclusions and predictions on global warming are so rough and primitive, compared to what's needed, and so unreliable that they are not even worth mentioning by respectful scientists. Gregory W. Moore | top
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. John Mortimer | top
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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. Wilhelm Ostwald | top
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By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. Robert Quine | top
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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. Herbert Read | top
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. John Millington Synge | top
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. Stewart Udall | top
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Judith Viorst | top
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You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. George Wald | top
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. Robert Wyatt | top
