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“Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.”

People Men Needs Spiritual Expression Wall Eras Caves Rudeness Prehistoric Bison Prehistoric Man

Author:Fernando Botero

“The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.”

Men Body Stuff Blood Masters Slave Bones Flesh Tyranny Flesh And Blood Vortex Prehistoric Prehistoric Man

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”

Source: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

“Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.”

Men World Universe Energy Force Fire Generations Concepts Discovery Release Revolutionary Nationalism Our Generation Prehistoric Atomic Energy Prehistoric Man

Author:Albert Einstein

“Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.”

Ups & Downs Prehistoric Man

Author:Trey Parker

“I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.”

Thinking Men Made Age Beautiful Gone Objects Ought Thousand Stones Skins Woods Bones Fabric Tribes Statues Ivory Fetish Prehistoric Stone Age Beautiful Objects Prehistoric Man African Tribes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”

Men World Has Beens Art Stills Together Magic Drawing Famous Artist Art And Artists Prehistoric Prehistoric Man Prehistoric Times

Book:Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.”

Knows Men Needs Doe Use Brain Know How Example Evolution Species Organs Providing Prehistoric Evolution Of Man Prehistoric Man

Author:Arthur Koestler

“I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.”

Ifs World Persons Life Is Loses I've Learned Family And Friends Lost Friendship Treasured Prehistoric Man

Author:Trey Parker

“There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.”

Art Shows Painting Evidence Tragic Site Aggravation Prehistoric Deteriorating Prehistoric Man

Author:Louis Leakey

“PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.”

Art Practice Periods Belonging Museums Falsehood Perpetuating Prehistoric Prehistoric Man

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.”

Men Firsts Littles Stills Form Lost Natural Alive Historical Hunting Hunters Sleepy Prehistoric Prehistoric Man

Book:Meditations on Hunting

Source: Meditations on Hunting

“It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.”

Knows Feels Asking Meat Going Out Caves How You Feel Reflexes Prehistoric Prehistoric Man

Author:Fred Ward

“Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Hands Earth Culture Wind Rain Heavy Soil Agriculture Crude Erosion Prehistoric Soil Erosion Prehistoric Man Heavy Rain

Author:Hugh Hammond Bennett

“Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.”

Important Sometimes Profitable Prehistoric Man

Author:Trey Parker