"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that……" — Penelope Lively

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• To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain… — Norman Lamm
• Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind… — Winston Churchill
• I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as… — John Keegan
• In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. — Don DeLillo
• It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a… — Antonin Artaud
• Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect. — Howard Blum
• In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate,… — William C. Brown
• Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind… — Winston Churchill
• I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of… — Stephen Moyer

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