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Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable. ↗

— Graham Greene

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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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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 man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

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I once visited a village of primitive people. At village, I felt time and life moved slower. ↗

— Toba Beta

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Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races. ↗

— Toba Beta

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