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As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dre...

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. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the...

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John DeweyIntelligence in the Modern World

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...

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The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others)...

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He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There...

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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Demo...

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Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native ...

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Carl SaganBroca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems...

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Ernest BeckerThe Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take t...

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I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath,...

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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 da...

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