Primaries Quotes - Page 31

• I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.

  Lindsey Graham

  War, Thinking, Goal

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, School, Jail

  Source: collider.com

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• Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

  John Travolta

  Night, Color, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Civilization, Pyramids

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

  John Burroughs

  Cheer, Color, Bird

  John Burroughs (1976). “The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout”

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• The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Evil, Groups

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• The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.

  Arthur Koestler

  Real, Self, Opposites

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• This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

  Martin Buber

  Giving, Risk, May

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.16, A&C Black

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• Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Names, Oneness, Self

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• There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

  Louis Aragon

  Dream, Reality, Mind

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• A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Dangerous Situations, Anxiety, Want

  "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.

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• Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Growth, Environmental, Population

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• Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

  Paul Twitchell

  Self, Movement, Spirit

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• Downey Savings & Loan receives high ratings from its customers in California in areas related to personal service and for being customer focused. Downey customers are also twice as likely to visit a branch as their primary transaction method, which contributes to higher overall satisfaction levels. Multiple convenient locations and extended operating hours in supermarkets positively increase customer perceptions of convenience for Downey.

  Jeffery Taylor

  California, Perception, Saving

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• The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

  Ali Partovi

  Artist, Roles, Tools

  "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.

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• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  Vernon L. Smith

  School, Cities, Achievement

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• A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

  Steven Dietz

  Shopping, People, Television

  Steven Dietz, Eric Peltoniemi (1987). “Ten November”

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• What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.

  Carol J. Adams

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Love, Evil, Judging

  Gregory A. Boyd (2004). “Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God”, p.17, Baker Books

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• Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

  Robert Genn

  Effectiveness, Keys, Focus

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• The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Stress, Perfect

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• Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Men, Race

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “Message of the President of the United States Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress”

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• There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Fear, Moving

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• A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Practice, Mind, Method

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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