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• I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Writing, Responsibility, Today

  "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Running, Fall, Moon

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• I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

  V. P. Singh

  Motivational, Would Be, Disaster

  V. P. Singh's remarks in the year the Janata Dal was formed, 1988.

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• The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

  Voltaire

  Fate, Digestion, Ministers

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• You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

  John Howard

  Leadership, Australia, People

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• Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

  Roger Kahn

  Strong, Destiny, Feet

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• I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Disrespectful, Authority

  "Tthe Shallow Spcialism Of Hating Michael O'Leary" by Brendan, www.spiked-online.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

  William Wordsworth

  Fashion, Men, Hands

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.1104, Delphi Classics

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• Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

  Joseph Stalin

  Evil, Division, Pope

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• I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use

  Imran Khan

  Wall, Government, House

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• Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Jobs, Moral, Ministers

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• Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.

  Friedrich Engels

  Men, Political, Next

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Australia, Listening

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• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Reform, Canada

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  People, Actors, Scene

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Maturity, Men, Phrases

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.68, Yale University Press

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• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spirit, Function, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

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• Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

  James Cagney

  Nature, Order, My Family

  James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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• Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

  Dalai Lama

  Purpose, Life Is, Purpose Of Life

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• For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Golden

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Recollection Of The Arabian Nights”

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• No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Want, Ministers, Fats

  "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet, news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2007.

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• The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Hazards, Managers, Superficiality

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