Rudimentary Quotes

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The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole… — Adolfo Bioy Casares
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could… — Carl Rogers
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed,… — Hugh Mackay
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.… — Margaret Atwood
It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic… — George Will
I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as… — Matt Cameron
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the… — Mao Zedong
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a… — Johnny Carson
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes… — Ambrose Bierce
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is… — Marcel Proust
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of… — Phyllis Bottome
For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of… — Evelyn Underhill
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a… — Bram Cohen
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for… — Daniel Dennett
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham. — Rupert Everett
How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said… — Rachel Nichols

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