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«High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
chopping, drawing, Fire and Water, high technology, high water, performing, primordial, spring water, tasks, technology, wood
«I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
ancestry, atomic, consequently, globule, My Family, primordial, sneered, sneering, sneers, trace
«It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it /just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
astonished, casts, indefatigably, primordial, repeats, reproduce, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, sea shore
«Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
amazingly, backward, cartoon, cartoonist, cartoonists, cartoons, comic, comics, comic strip, Comic strips, early on, goo, increasingly, medium, primordial, sophistication
«Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
Bah, clapped, primordial
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