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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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• Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Responsibility, People, Community

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• Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communicated back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Communication, Reading

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• In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

  Dave Reichert

  Drug, United States, Facts

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• How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Taken, Science

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• The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Yoga, Play, Drawing

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• A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Becoming, Students, Forget

  "Hunger of Memory". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 1982.

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• Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

  Amartya Sen

  Mean, Development, Ends

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.10, Anchor

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• The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

  Thomas Berry

  Communication, Scripture, Revelations

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• The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being.

  Thomas Berry

  Community, Earth, Mystery

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• There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

  Mary Cassatt

  Mother, Sacrifice, Artist

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• Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

  Millard Fuller

  Circles, People, Creative

  Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Home, Keys, Brain

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• My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

  Julian Barbour

  Change, Ideas, Realization

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• Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

  Beryl Markham

  Land, Voice, Fundamentals

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

  Edward T. Hall

  Time, Wall, People

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• His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

  Unknown

  Lying, Believe, People

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• The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Country, Usa, United States

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