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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
Ayn Rand
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As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
Don DeLillo
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Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.
Bill Maher
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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses
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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert J. Nock
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The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
Rose Macaulay
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Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.
Todd Duncan
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
Dmitri Shostakovich
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Ed Koch
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Paul Cezanne
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
Robert Wyatt
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If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.
Ray Bradbury
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I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
Helen Vendler
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To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
Charles Baudelaire
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Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.
Dana Gould
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By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
Robert Quine
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The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
Don DeLillo
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Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.
Tanith Lee
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
Arthur Eddington
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If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
Rowan Pelling
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The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.
Albert Einstein
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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
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the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
Margaret Millar
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Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.
Susan Mitchell
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
Anne Lamott
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
Sophie Swetchine
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The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.
Sydney Pollack
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The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."
Fred Ritchin