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Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot

Music Good Language Good Music Primitive Very Close

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again. Don Everly

Time Good Me You Remember Thought Long Long Time Gave Back Once Say Some Pretty Some Things Write Never Knocked Primitive How Been Shock Any Again Therapy They Say Things Treatment

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. Donna Tartt

Time More Emotional Adult Observation Sharp Sharper Primitive Powers Reactions Very Than Same Same Time Children Much Murky

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. Ed Koch

Action Primitive Foresight Strategist

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. Elliott Abrams

Day Diplomacy Isolation Cold Syria Out Has-Been Obama Administration Obama Administration Would Outreach Toward Since New Primitive Sophisticated Reaction Policy Came Been Replaced Office Trying Substitute Bush Shoulder Viewed Now

I don't think a multi-starrer or a solo film has anything to do with your choice of films. That is a bit of a primitive concept, really. Yes, you might want to keep a healthy balance, but that has more to do with the kind of roles you are playing. Fawad Khan

What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution. Ferid Murad

Me Simple Important Back Way Evolution Compound Primitive Most Does Important Role Role Goes Cellular Elements Suggest Plays

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

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. Grandma Moses

Work Primitive Amateur Sells Artist Whose

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. Henry James Sumner Maine

Law Once Embodied Development Primitive Spontaneous Been End May Code

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. Ira Glass

Me Incredibly Broadcast Seem Generally Journalism Primitive Aesthetic

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. James Mark Baldwin

Mind True Primitive Period Infancy Represents

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. Jane Goodall

Behavior Unlike Both Hostile Primitive Learn Territorial Were Human Forms Warfare Capable Certain Appalling Fascinating

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

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. John Desmond Bernal

Time Peace Humanity Sex Side Sight Hunger Plenty Dream Longer Primitive Looks Within Permanent Permanent Peace Still Arrival Were Existence Dominate Human Human Existence Awaits Satisfaction Utopian Present Present Time

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. John Desmond Bernal

Giving Satisfied Too License Failed Primitive Wishes Because Greatest Infantile Themselves Full Naturalism Even Play Inconsistent

England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington. John Eccles

Young Research Secretarial Facilities Delightful Almost Primitive Academic Although Stimulating Were Laboratory Place Grants Standards England Even Present Assistance

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

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics. Louis Leakey

Dog Characteristics Primitive Breed Many

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