Archaic Quotes
70 quotes by 64 authors
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What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because…
— Philip Kaufman
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Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic…
— Dmitry Medvedev
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Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you…
— Clementine Ford
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Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
— Dee Hock
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not…
— Philip Guston
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave…
— Walter Lippmann
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The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.
— Julian Whitaker
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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
— Ashley Montagu
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Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their…
— David G. McAfee
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Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps…
— Ken Wilber
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Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of…
— Harold Bloom
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You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace…
— Chris Cooper
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All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all…
— Joseph Campbell
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Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
— Carl Jung
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Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about…
— Camille
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Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments -…
— Dianna Agron
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Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no…
— Tom Robbins
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If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is…
— Michael Steinhardt
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Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how…
— Jim Rash
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are…
— Larry Sabato
Who Wrote These Archaic Quotes
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