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• Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive… — Konrad Lorenz
• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive… — Curt Sachs
• The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry;… — Katharine Hamnett
• Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human… — Ludwig von Mises
• When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman
• Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names… — Karl Jaspers
• The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman
• Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was… — Bob Fosse
• But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. — Paul Harris
• We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis
• We have grown from primitive man into modern ways and are now looking for modern humans from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis

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