Primaries Quotes

• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Doe, Election

  One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)

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• If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Attitude

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• Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Reality, Mad, Mind

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• Your mind-set is your primary weapon

  Jeff Cooper

  Mind, Weapons, Self Defense

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• The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Reading, Source

  "Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman interview". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Be sure that the reason you are in the business is not to be a star, but because you love the craft of acting. If you have a real passion for it and acting is what you want to do every day, you are much more likely to be successful. If being a star is your primary goal, you may end up being very disappointed.

  Donna Mills

  Stars, Real, Passion

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• Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Leadership, Creativity, Mirrors

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• Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.

  George Will

  Baseball, Team, Believe

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• Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Zero, Cutting, Winning

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• The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes of manifestation exhibit equivalent invariances for both consciousness and matter. When the program for mind-physics is complete the subject-object dichotomy of modal logic, the polarity of concept-percept, and the antagonism between morality and technology will all come to an end. Then the non-repeatable experiment will be understood to be more primary than the traditional repeatable experiment.

  Paul Laffoley

  Technology, Mind, Matter

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• Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Time, Men, Discipline

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• ... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.

  Alice S Rossi

  Sex, Men, Feelings

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• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Expectations, Understanding

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Apology, Sick

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• I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Family, Long, Agents

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• [Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

  William Blackstone

  Taken, Self, Law

  Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books : with an Analysis of the Work”, p.3

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• From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Rivers, Water

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• One legislator accused me of having a 19th century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law abiding citizens should be one of government's primary concerns.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Father, War

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• We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Intuition, Tuition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.30

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, Our World, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

  William J. Clinton

  Curves, Two, Childhood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

  Elie Wiesel

  Tasks, Turbulent Times, Jew

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• I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Simple, New Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Validation, Miserable, Source

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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