Primaries Quotes

• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Doe, Election

  One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)

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• If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Attitude

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• Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Reality, Mad, Mind

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• Your mind-set is your primary weapon

  Jeff Cooper

  Mind, Weapons, Self Defense

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• The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• We knew that the referee [in primary debates] is on the side of the Democrats because the referee, whoever the referee is, is a Democrat first and a so-called journalist second. I mean, we know that Lester Holt did not challenge Hillary [Clinton].

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Challenges, Sides

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read about in a book or watch in a movie or a television show - and in this case, in the Republican primary, Trump was not the villain.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Book, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One primary reason is, [Donald Trump's] supporters didn't care - and, in fact (and frustratingly so), his supporters ate it up. His supporters loved it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Facts, Reason

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.

  Robert H. Frank

  Optimistic, Simple, Government

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.

  Van Jones

  White, House, World

  Source: pen.org

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• Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Long, Goal, President

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• In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

  Conan O'Brien

  Change, New York, Names

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Home, Motherhood

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• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Art, Self

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• Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

  Sarah Palin

  Beautiful, War, Thinking

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• I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

  Leon Panetta

  Military, Thinking, United States

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 8, 2012.

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• If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

  Leon Panetta

  Responsibility, United States, Reform

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. December 6, 2006.

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• I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

  Sean Parker

  Motivation, Impact, Changing The World

  “Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'” by Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

  Alexander Payne

  Marketing, Important, Culture

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• The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Sunday, Imagination, Important

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• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Use, Complicated

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• That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

  John Podhoretz

  Fashion, Block, Snow

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• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Self, Goal, Lines

  "The Hard-Line on Grocery Items" by Queen Rania al Abdullah, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2010.

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• Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Philosophy, Book, Eye

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• I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

  Ann Romney

  Religious, Thinking, Important

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