"My father was a creature of the archaic……" — Seamus Heaney

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• Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold… — Camille Paglia
• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.… — Dee Hock
• I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the… — Jimmy Hoffa
• The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural… — H.G. Wells
• Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but… — Guillaume Faye
• It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children… — Scarlett Johansson
• Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering… — Gary Valentine
• Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and… — Edward Abbey
• It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the… — Jacques Derrida
• Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. — Bridget Riley
• A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution… — Michelangelo Signorile
• As the New Earth approaches, our way of thinking is being challenged more and more. The Veil is thinning and… — Dolores Cannon

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