Quotes with primitive

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• What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Good music is very close to primitive language.

  Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
  Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consequences
• comprehend
• presence
• calamity
• language
• terrific

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