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“We could be Immortal If we just let go of hate If we just let go of chaos If we just let go of war If we just let go of guns We could be Immortal If we just embraced love Put human beings & nature first But instead we choose To be the worst examples Of our primitive selves Lacking in all of our best virtues Lacking in any new ideas or values Without these realizations We go one step forward & Always two steps back Never succeeding Never growing Dead”

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Book:R A W POEMS R.M. ENGELHARDT
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“It seems that before the Europeans came to the Americas, our highly cultured Indian woman usually held an honored position in the "primitive" society in which she lived. She was mistress of the home and took full part in tribal elections. The position of the woman was not only free, but honorable. She was a strong laborer, a good mechanic, a good craftsman, a trapper, a doctor, a preacher and, if need be, a leader. It seems that among the so-called SAVAGE people of this continent, women held a degree of political influence never equaled in any CIVILIZED nation.”

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Book:Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights)
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“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today – including a nine-month gestation period. “Impossible,” replied the Melanesians. “Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I’d certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.”

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Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
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“Primitive man has never been able to limit his needs to what is strictly necessary. His friendships among the souls are not confined to the creatures that are useful to his body or dangerous to his life. When we see how man in his poetry, his myths and legends creates an imaginative counterpart of his surroundings, how he arranges his ceremonial life, at times indeed his whole life, according to the heavens and their movement, how at his festivals he dramatizes the whole creation of his limited world through a long series of ritual scenes, we gain some idea how important it was to him to underpin his spiritual existence. His circle of friends spans from the high lights of heaven to the worm burrowing in the soil; it includes not only the bug that may be good to eat, but also innocuous insects that never entered into his list of delicacies; it comprises not only the venomous snake, but also harmless crawling things that have no claim on his interest save from the fact of their belonging to his country.”

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Book:The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
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“We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to wear, no ready-made food to eat, no cozy shelter to take rest in and no future to plan about. Only the ‘present’ was present with a struggle to survive. But, the only difference between a ‘primitive man’ and a ‘mad man’ is that the former had a ‘reasonable’ mind with some unreasonable traits and the latter has an ‘unreasonable’ mind with many unreasonable and possibly some reasonable traits!”

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Author:Md. Ziaul Haque
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“It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.”

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Author:Harlan Ellison
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“Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair signifies potent sexual energy and strength hold but also signifies virility of the animalistic tendencies and royal power . . . A woman who rejects narcissism of complete vaginal hair removal gives a signature of strength, virtuously liberated, body acceptance, and more womanhood.”

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Book:Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I
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“A great deal of various cultural elements naturally grew from a real need of responding to [mostly] human psychology and biology, with varying degrees of attention to environments, circumstances and chance. Some solutions, how ever well intentioned - may have an impatient character due to the hardship of those times. Likewise - on the other side, certain modern aspects of society may have developed cultural elements which would not be possible without some disregard for hardship. Hardships, with which the very wellbeing of our biology find itself deeply entangled - depending heavily on balance. We may recognize that in times of increased patience - come oppurtunity for reflection in hope to encourage greater balance.”

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Author:Monaristw
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“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides enormous excitement as one gets closer and closer to completion The culmination of all the hours of work combined with the emotional input in its creation cannot describe the sense of pride and accomplishment when it is finally published”

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Book:African Sunsets: A Settlers' Story
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“Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.”

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Book:Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
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“He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something -sub-human -something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in - anthropological studies! Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the Stone Age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you - you here - waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet! Night falls and the other apes gather! There in the front of the cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing and hulking! His poker night! - you call it - this party of apes! Somebody growls - some creature snatches at something - the fight is on! God! Maybe we are a long way from beng made in God's image, but Stella - my sister - there has been some progress since then! Such things as art - as poetry and music - such kinds of new light have come into the world since then! In some kinds of people some tendered feelings have had some little beginning! That we have got to make grow! And cling to, and hold as our flag! In this dark march towards what-ever it is we're approaching . . . Don't - don't hang back with the brutes!”

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Book:A Streetcar Named Desire
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“Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“L'opera primaria di leader, di apripista e di creatrici principali non sempre porta a risultati positivi; è importante evitare una visione ingenua per cui tutto ciò che proviene dalle donne va bene. L'opera svolta dalle donne è fondamentale - e qui si esprime già un giudizio di valore - perché riguarda la vita, non è una primarietà "tecnica". Se il parametro di giudizio è lo schieramento etico per la vivibilità contro l'uccidibilità, allora questa primarietà risulta decisiva per l'affermazione della vita, tanto più oggi in un mondo in cui i messaggi di morte sono preminenti mentre quelli legati alla vita stentano, faticano ad affermarsi organicamente, anche se nell'esistenza prevalgono, altrimenti la nostra specie starebbe per estinguersi. Le donne sono state protagoniste anche di creazioni negative, come l'inizio di autoalienazione - comunque imparagonabile all'autoalienazione delle religioni monoteiste -, legata all'invenzione di una figura femminile al di sopra dell'umano, sacra, che regola sia il mondo naturale sia la comunità. Le donne come genere nella loro opera costante in favore della vita hanno agito anche con grandi difetti di coscienza, con una capacità universalizzante insufficiente, ad esempio concependo ed interpretando la forte tensione all'accudimento in chiave privatista, egoista, addirittura competitiva con altri gruppi umani. Possedere speciali facoltà creative non basta, queste vanno costantemente interpretate: il compiacere per esempio può essere inteso sia come "provare piacere con" sia, in senso negativo, fare qualcosa per far piacere ad altri, ai maschi in particolare, per ottenerne dei vantaggi. Per questo parliamo di fattualità e di potenzialità di una superiorità che per essere tale va scelta, non ha uno svolgimento predeterminato. Essa radica in una primarietà, in una primigenìa ricca e incompiuta ma anche largamente impedita, laddove l'incompiutezza è precedente all'instaurazione del patriarcato e con tutta probabilità è ciò che ha favorito la sua affermazione, e l'impedimento, questo sì, deriva dall'opera funesta del patriarcato che ha ostacolato il riconoscimento e lo svolgimento della primigenìa. Non è stato un impedimento assoluto, ci sono state tante eccezioni, per ora ne conosciamo soltanto una parte; nella storia del patriarcato ci sono state continue infrazioni da parte di donne che, in un modo o nell'altro, si sono sottratte, hanno scelto di essere differenti, spesso isolate, talvolta creando dei gruppi. Se l'essere prime da parte delle donne, se la primigenìa in tutte le sfere dell'esistenza fosse stata avversata e negata dai maschi fin dall'inizio la specie umana non si sarebbe affermata. È possibile rintracciare nel passato un riconoscimento elementare, intuitivo, ma determinante di questo prius e della sua naturalità (in questo caso il concetto di naturalità va inteso distinto da quello di natura umana). Con tutta probabilità le primitive e i primitivi ragionavano della natura e dell'umanità come di un unicum, delle donne e degli uomini come facenti parte della natura prima, non pienamente consapevoli della propria stessa emersione. Questo riconoscimento era intuitivo ma molto forte, tant'è vero che tutte le sacralizzazioni e poi le religioni sono nate al femminile e che anche le principali figure, i più importanti simboli e suggestioni delle religioni patriarcali sono femminili o sono reinterpretazioni di simboli legati alla figura femminile.”

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Book:L'origine femminile dell'Umanità. Dialoghi, lezioni, articoli
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“Per quanto riguarda l’attualità e il futuro: non si tratta di mutuare il modo di vivere e di pensare delle primitive e dei primitivi, tornando indietro a prima del patriarcato, ma di teorizzare e progettare l’essere migliori e vivere meglio anche capendo che l’intuizione elementare del prius femminile è stato parte dell’affermazione e dell’emersione della specie umana. Lo sfalso non spiega tutto. L’umanità ha tutt’altro che risolto il problema dell’oppressione patriarcale e affrontarlo è complicato. I maschi non devono far finta di non far parte del loro genere, devono provare a schierarsi attivamente contro le caratteristiche peggiori e poter riconoscere quelle più positive. Non è possibile omettere il passaggio di riconoscimento di appartenenza al genere maschile, e uso il termine appartenenza perché solitamente è proprio un’appartenenza di clan, di banda, dalla quale non ci si può dissociare passivamente. Lo si può fare solo in modo attivo, a partire dagli ambiti che si frequentano. Lo sfalso perenne può essere interpretato e immaginato dalle donne positivamente per il futuro, non come una dannazione al multi-tasking ma come potenzialità a vantaggio di una specie che è unitaria, che condivide una contemporaneità rispetto all’essere, rappresentare e agire. Una riflessione da impostare che qui accenno come tema da esplorare riguarda gli aspetti morali sottesi a questo sfalso, perché la preminenza nel genere femminile della preoccupazione per la vivibilità e per il bene, anche se intesa in maniera riduttiva o talvolta in maniera sbagliata, ritengo inerisca la morale, oltre che la capacità di percezione, di attenzione, di sguardo d’assieme.”

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Book:L'origine femminile dell'Umanità. Dialoghi, lezioni, articoli
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“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order. Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. Something that had survived somehow the advance of humanity had emerged terrifically, betraying a scale of life monstrous and immature. He envisaged it rather as a glimpse into prehistoric ages, when superstitions, gigantic and uncouth, still oppressed the hearts of men: when the forces of nature were still untamed, the Powers that may have haunted a primeval universe not yet withdrawn. To this day he thinks of what he termed years later in a sermon 'savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.' ("The Wendigo")”

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Book:Monster Mix
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“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’ we accused it of being; it never was the primitive, preliminary technology of communication we thought it had to be. Rather, if the whole truth is told, oral tradition stands out as the single most dominant communicative technology of our species, as both a historical fact and, in many areas still, a contemporary reality. The miracle of the flat inscribable surface and Gutenberg’s genius aside, even the electronic revolution cannot challenge the long-term preeminence of the oral tradition. ("Introduction" by John Foley)”

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Book:Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and its Influence in the Greek and Roman World
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“This does not mean (as is so often thought) that primitive man, in order to explain natural phenomena, imparts human characteristics to an inanimate world. Primitive man simply does not know an inanimate world. For this very reason he does not 'personify' inanimate phenomena nor does he fill an empty world with the ghosts of the dead, as 'animism' would have us believe. The world appears to primitive man neither inanimate nor empty but redundant with life; and life has individuality, in man and beast and plant, and in every phenomenon which confronts man — the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the eerie and unknown clearing in the wood, the stone which suddenly hurts him when he stumbles while on a hunting trip. Any phenomenon may at any time face him, not as 'It', but as 'Thou'. In this confrontation, 'Thou' reveals its individuality, its qualities, its will. 'Thou' is not contemplated with intellectual detachment; it is experienced as life confronting life, involving every faculty of man in a reciprocal relationship. Thoughts, no less than acts and feelings, are subordinated to this experience.”

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Book:Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
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“God - A mystery, a great difficulty for us to define. Nevertheless we agree, the truly highest possible state of being. Perspective - To see. Humble - Seeing how the chemical rush we feel in our bodies [almost urging us to feel great or proud] is completely unfounded if God is also in the room. If we are greater than someone, it is only by a very small amount. But, we have a tendency of allowing a single drop of water to soak us in full. It may be true that chimps differ from us only by a miniscule percent, though it's worth noting that each difference as meassured within percent can be very unequal. Great value can spring from small contributions as meassured in size or otherwise. It can be healthy to always compare ourselves to God, before comparing ourselves to others. As the Sun to the Earth, before the Earth to the Moon. Standing firm.”

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Author:Tharistw
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“In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation”

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Book:Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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