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• Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you.  You can say a lot of things.  You can write books about him, damning him.  So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.

  Brigid Brophy

  Art, Play, May

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• I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; it resonates with me: 'A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.'

  Ted Olson

  Military, Rights, Virginia

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• When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Play, Imagination, Feelings

  "Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman" by Ingmar Bergman, (Introduction), 1960.

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• Action is where it's at, as far as making dreams come true. We ourselves are the prime channel for our creations, so if we don't act but just wait, then we are blocking the channel. If we do act then we will be supported by all that we are connected to... which is All That Is if we act with love and service as our motivation.

  Peter Shepherd

  Success, Dream, Motivation

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• So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

  Tony Blair

  Phones, Ministers, Mobile

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• Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

  John W. Gardner

  Ignorance, Simple, Two

  "A Nation Is Never Finished". ABA Journal, Volume 53, page 1011, November 1967.

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• Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Football, Years, Occupation

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Silly, Writing

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• Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Jobs, Interesting

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• At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister. Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.

  Harold Wilson

  Sleep, Successful, Political

  "The Governance of Britain".

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• Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.

  Art Linkletter

  Positive, Attitude, Optimistic

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• A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Hope, Teaching

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• Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  Zig Ziglar

  Appreciation, Jobs, Organization

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• Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Perception, Agents

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

  Remarks to Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, Cal., 19 May 1992

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• The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Mind, Perception

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

  Bob Proctor

  Self Esteem, Psychology, Causes

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 23, 2014

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• A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.

  Saul Alinsky

  Order, Evil, Political

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

  Bill Gates

  Events, Ability, Company

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• If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

  Brian Mulroney

  Ministers, Objectives, Known

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• That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Commitment, Love Is, Israel

  "Pelosi: Netanyahu speech 'insulting to the intelligence of the United States'" by Lauren French, www.politico.com. March 3, 2015.

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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Three, Four, Ministers

  "Brought to book". www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Mistake, Critical Decisions

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