“ 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… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ We must have research for peace … It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism … Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race. ”
- Linus Carl Pauling- Copy
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“ A gent I know whose life is superfluidity. Took a job in CBS Continuity. One night after too much Scotch paregoric, He turned in a script just too prehistoric. He was fired and said, as he read his doxology I thought they would like my Paley-ontology. ”
- Paul W. White- Copy
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“ THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms… ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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