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This typically very primitive style attack equals millions of dollars in damage, if you were to shoot out some very key components you can quickly create an effect where this large multimillion dollar transformer becomes essentially a paperweight. – Brian Harrell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? if so, where? – Boris Sauterey	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered, it is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in South Africa. Its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices. – Lee Berger	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Only primitive man knew freedom, but a freedom imprisoned by the fear of the other and of nature. – Haimer abdou	added by haimerart 2 years ago
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Tsialas said Flavia Tomello Tsialas now hopes Flavia Tomello Tsialas sons death will inspire a cultural change at U.S.universities. I would like to see these deadly traditions and primitive practices be forever removed out of our colleges, so that hazing deaths do not occur in the future, i hope that this tragedy will force schools to create an environment for students to grow not only in knowledge, but also in love, inclusion and compassion. – Flavia Tomello Tsialas	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have the very exciting chance that two space missions visited two primitive Near-Earth asteroids at about the same times, which allows us to discover two new small worlds, what really fascinated us when we saw the first images, is the amazing similarity of the two objects, before more detailed observations made differences emerge. This is really fascinating because these asteroids were chosen totally independently from one mission to the other. – Patrick Michel	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The reason why Laurasichersis survived the great extinction, while none of the other primitive North American, European or Asian land turtles managed to do so, remains a mystery. – Prez Garca	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Ive been looking at the matrix of primitive meteorites, the material that holds the structure together, the meteorite in question dates to roughly 4.6 billion years ago, when the Sun was born and our Solar System formed. The matrix of these meteorites is therefore thought to be the starting material from which all the planets formed. – Epifanio Vaccaro	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
My parents are migrants ; I'm more from the city than the country, but I always knew what the country was, and from there comes what I paint, though I do not come from a primitive world. – Francisco Toledo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we see in the new cranium is like a primitive face. – Yohannes Haile-Selassie	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
MRD has a mix of primitive and derived facial and cranial features that I didn't expect to see on a single individual. – Yohannes Haile-Selassie	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Comets and primitive bodies in the outer solar system are really interesting because theyre thought to be leftover building blocks of the solar system, those small bodies could be incorporated into larger bodies, like Titan, and the dense, organic-rich rocky material could be found in its core. – Kelly Miller	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We won't be able to sow this year's crop. Conventional crops are more costly to store and harder to sell. We'd be pushed back into primitive 20th century agriculture. – Arnaldo Zunizakae	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die. – John Wayne	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
A future with automation is the equivalent as the past with primitive technology. It is the abstract factor that will ruin the utmost ambitions of our families' generations. To combat this 'societal plague' is to combat laziness, similar to defending against our negative mentality. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 6 years ago
What happened I think is that the chlorophyll-based photosynthesis is more efficient, which means they generally have outcompeted the the purple organisms, in evolution, you had progression from more primitive to more complex and capable systems. – Shiladitya DasSarma	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The Belarusian authorities are not so primitive. They are not Internet-phobic. Lukashenko is a rational person, revolutions do not occur due to the fact that someone writes something on the Internet. – Aleksander Klaskovskii	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
By decoding this primitive animal what we hope is to also contribute to the understanding of how mammals, including humans, walk. And therefore understanding input and output relationships of the spinal cord. – Professor Auke Ijspeert	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're challenged by the opposite of modernity, which is a barbaric mediaevalism, early mediaevalism, primitive, savage, murderous, that comes from the two sources of militant Islam, europe should support Israel - not pressure Israel, not attack Israel, but support Israel, which is the only real shield that Europe and the Middle East have against extremist Islam, which is surging. – Donald Tusk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans, if you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria. – Martin Rees	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You know, self-preservation kicks in, and I guess a primitive part of my brain just went into operation and that was it. – Cas Overton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
As I moved backward away from it, I grabbed its neck and I knew that I couldn't get away from it. If I ran, it would be faster than I would and would just tear me to pieces, you know, self-preservation kicks in, and I guess a primitive part of my brain just went into operation and that was it. – Cas Overton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Music and sex both tap into a very primitive part of your brain, and that’s why the two go so well together. – Aline Zoldbrod	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

This typically very primitive style attack equals millions of dollars in damage, if you were to shoot out some very key components you can quickly create an effect where this large multimillion dollar transformer becomes essentially a paperweight.

– Brian Harrell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? if so, where?

– Boris Sauterey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered, it is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in South Africa. Its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices.

– Lee Berger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Only primitive man knew freedom, but a freedom imprisoned by the fear of the other and of nature.

– Haimer abdou

added by haimerart
2 years ago

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Tsialas said Flavia Tomello Tsialas now hopes Flavia Tomello Tsialas sons death will inspire a cultural change at U.S.universities. I would like to see these deadly traditions and primitive practices be forever removed out of our colleges, so that hazing deaths do not occur in the future, i hope that this tragedy will force schools to create an environment for students to grow not only in knowledge, but also in love, inclusion and compassion.

– Flavia Tomello Tsialas

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have the very exciting chance that two space missions visited two primitive Near-Earth asteroids at about the same times, which allows us to discover two new small worlds, what really fascinated us when we saw the first images, is the amazing similarity of the two objects, before more detailed observations made differences emerge. This is really fascinating because these asteroids were chosen totally independently from one mission to the other.

– Patrick Michel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The reason why Laurasichersis survived the great extinction, while none of the other primitive North American, European or Asian land turtles managed to do so, remains a mystery.

– Prez Garca

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Ive been looking at the matrix of primitive meteorites, the material that holds the structure together, the meteorite in question dates to roughly 4.6 billion years ago, when the Sun was born and our Solar System formed. The matrix of these meteorites is therefore thought to be the starting material from which all the planets formed.

– Epifanio Vaccaro

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

My parents are migrants ; I'm more from the city than the country, but I always knew what the country was, and from there comes what I paint, though I do not come from a primitive world.

– Francisco Toledo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What we see in the new cranium is like a primitive face.

– Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

MRD has a mix of primitive and derived facial and cranial features that I didn't expect to see on a single individual.

– Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Comets and primitive bodies in the outer solar system are really interesting because theyre thought to be leftover building blocks of the solar system, those small bodies could be incorporated into larger bodies, like Titan, and the dense, organic-rich rocky material could be found in its core.

– Kelly Miller

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We won't be able to sow this year's crop. Conventional crops are more costly to store and harder to sell. We'd be pushed back into primitive 20th century agriculture.

– Arnaldo Zunizakae

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

– John Wayne

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

A future with automation is the equivalent as the past with primitive technology. It is the abstract factor that will ruin the utmost ambitions of our families' generations. To combat this 'societal plague' is to combat laziness, similar to defending against our negative mentality.

– Anonymous

added by anonymous
6 years ago

What happened I think is that the chlorophyll-based photosynthesis is more efficient, which means they generally have outcompeted the the purple organisms, in evolution, you had progression from more primitive to more complex and capable systems.

– Shiladitya DasSarma

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The Belarusian authorities are not so primitive. They are not Internet-phobic. Lukashenko is a rational person, revolutions do not occur due to the fact that someone writes something on the Internet.

– Aleksander Klaskovskii

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

By decoding this primitive animal what we hope is to also contribute to the understanding of how mammals, including humans, walk. And therefore understanding input and output relationships of the spinal cord.

– Professor Auke Ijspeert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're challenged by the opposite of modernity, which is a barbaric mediaevalism, early mediaevalism, primitive, savage, murderous, that comes from the two sources of militant Islam, europe should support Israel - not pressure Israel, not attack Israel, but support Israel, which is the only real shield that Europe and the Middle East have against extremist Islam, which is surging.

– Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans, if you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.

– Martin Rees

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You know, self-preservation kicks in, and I guess a primitive part of my brain just went into operation and that was it.

– Cas Overton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

As I moved backward away from it, I grabbed its neck and I knew that I couldn't get away from it. If I ran, it would be faster than I would and would just tear me to pieces, you know, self-preservation kicks in, and I guess a primitive part of my brain just went into operation and that was it.

– Cas Overton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Music and sex both tap into a very primitive part of your brain, and that’s why the two go so well together.

– Aline Zoldbrod

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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