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prehistoric
«The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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Evolution
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evolution, organ, overshoots, overshot, prehistoric, providing, species, The Brain
«A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.»
Author: Fernando Botero
(Artist)
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bison, caves, cave man, compensate, era, landscape, nourishing, oases, oasis, painted, prehistoric, rudeness, scrawl, scrawled, scrawls, sensual
«Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.»
Author: J. Robert Moskin
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ages, all ages, beginnings, dimness, faiths, grasp, New Beginnings, prehistoric, straws, thanksgiving
«To me, it seems that mankind can never achieve its highest potentialities till it has thrown off the incubus of historic (and prehistoric) religion . . .»
«PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that she threw at us. --Orpheus Bowen»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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antedate, antedated, antedating, art museums, belonging, Bowen, celestial, Clio, droll, fortuitous, Orpheus, perpetuating, phantasmagoric, prehistoric, recorded, set down, succession, threw
«Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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atomic, atomic energy, basic, concept, discovery, Discovery of, fitted, narrow, outmoded, prehistoric, release, revolutionaries, revolutionary
«It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
coal, complained, disposition, find fault, prehistoric, toads
