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• Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Kindness, People, Democracy

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• Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Heart, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.188, Fordham Univ Press

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• You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.  Your primary influence is the environment you create.

  Peter Senge

  Commitment, Nudge Nudge, Role Models

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• Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

  Oswald Spengler

  Running, Animal, Men

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Believe, Ideas, Alive

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

  George Muller

  Soul, Firsts, Lord

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• I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation on it.

  George Muller

  Reading, Men, Giving

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• The primary factor is proportions.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Death, Design, Proportion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

  C. Edwin Baker

  Government, Media, United States

  C. Edwin Baker (2014). “Advertising and a Democratic Press”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Creative, Mind

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Abolition Of Slavery, Goal

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• The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Simplicity, Complicated

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.102

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• Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

  Aristotle

  Math, Statistics, Knows

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• Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

  Brian Kernighan

  Statistics, Trivia, Efficiency

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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• What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Ideas, Charity

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

  Judy Biggert

  Unique, Discovery, Creating

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• Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

  Gerda Lerner

  Tools, Emancipation

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• The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

  Alexander Calder

  Long, Sculpture, Elements

  "Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture". August, 1933.

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• As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

  Mark Dever

  Numbers, Long, Growth

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.12, B&H Publishing Group

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• True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Mean, Essentials, Indifferent

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• It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Art, Light

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• Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  School, Government, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1851). “The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined”, p.62

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• My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Adventure, Goal, Intellectual

  "The “world’s most wanted hacker,” Kevin Mitnick, has gone straight (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. October 21, 2011.

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