Primaries Quotes - Page 14

• Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

  Herman Kahn

  Safety, Morality, Deterrence

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.35, Lexington Books

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• It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Prayer, Believe, Giving

  J. M. G. Le Clézio (1993). “The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations”, p.111, University of Chicago Press

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• Feeling good is the primary intention

  Danielle LaPorte

  Feel Good, Feelings, Intention

  Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.79, Sounds True

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• Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

  Joe Klein

  Confused, Writing, Color

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• A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active participant in those occurrences. Indeed, by virtue of its underlying and enveloping presence, the place may even be felt to be the source, the primary power that expresses itself through the various events that unfold there.

  David Abram

  Land, May, Events

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.162, Vintage

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• The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

  Ben Horowitz

  Technology, Two, People

  "HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Jealous, Careers

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• God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.

  Matt Chandler

  Turtles, Fence Post, Giving

  Matt Chandler, Eric Geiger, Josh Patterson (2012). “Creature of the Word”, p.176, B&H Publishing Group

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• A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

  Pierre Salinger

  Education, Thinking, People

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• Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

  George Murphy

  Jesus, Christ, Revelations

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• To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Integrity, Crazy, Moving

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• We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is present... in a manner wholly different from... inanimate things.

  Medard Boss

  Animal, Reality, Men

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• The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Real, Responsibility, Goal

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Business Success, Matter

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7367, Delphi Classics

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• I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation of the Gospel bears witness to Christ and is lived out in service of our neighbour through justice for the poorest, education in isolated villages, medical care in remote areas, freedom from poverty, the reintegration of the marginalised, support for the development of peoples, the breaking down of ethnic divisions and respect for life in all its stages.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Justice, Support, Church

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• A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.

  Karl Hess

  Faith, Men, Land

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• In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Psychics, People, Energy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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• Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

  Tahir Shah

  Enlightenment, Varanasi

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Rights, People, Focus

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• Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell of the nervous system, do not multiply (for the most part) after we are born. That means that the majority of the neurons in your brain today are as old as you are. This longevity of the neurons partially accounts for why we feel pretty much the same on the inside at the age of 10 as we do at age 30 or 77.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Mean, Cells, Brain

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.21, Penguin

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• The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There also dwells Life, the soul of the primal substance - water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it, and in which it circulates. Every pulse beat arising through the interaction of will and resistance is indicative of creative work and urges us to care for those vessels, those primary and most vital structures, in which throbs the product of a dualistic power - Life

  Viktor Schauberger

  Life, Nature, Water

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.22, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Causes

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• The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.

  David Hume

  Men, Differences, Words Of Wisdom

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• When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Ideas, Words Of Wisdom, Analysis

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• Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Words Of Wisdom, Unity

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