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• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that… — Tom Robbins
• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and… — Erving Goffman
• Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks… — Loren Eiseley
• We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,… — Hal Abelson
• There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single… — Carl Jung
• In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words… — Gary Snyder
• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some… — Walter Truett Anderson
• The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it.… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
• The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates… — Stephen Wolfram
• There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the… — Andy Warhol

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