Primaries Quotes - Page 18

• The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

  Aristotle

  Future, Heaven, Substance

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Heavens”, p.48, Aeterna Press

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• They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Stars, Distance, Future

  "Gulliver's Travels". Book by Jonathan Swift. Part III: "A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan". Chapter 3, 1726.

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• If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Doubt, Mind

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 11 (3 April 1776)

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• The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Love, Wise, Appreciation

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• Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.

  Mark Jackson

  Agency, Goal, Clients

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• The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

  Joseph McCabe

  Atheist, Play, Training

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• Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Integrity, Mean, Responsibility

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• You might be a redneck if...you think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are the three of the primary colors.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Blue

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• Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Creativity, Innovation, Conflict

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• When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.

  Duane Elgin

  Pain, Loss, Pleasure Seeking

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• With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Heart, Keys, Mountain Ranges

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

  Tony Kushner

  Brother, Husband, Writing

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• Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Firsts, Celebration, Seats

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• Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Integrity, Helping Others

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• What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Jobs, Reality, Quality

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

  Adolf Hitler

  Father, Military, Lying

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

  Ed Stetzer, Mike Dodson (2007). “Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too”, p.14, B&H Publishing Group

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• Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Children, Father

  Hillary Cinton's speech at the conference on domestic violence in San Salvador, El Salvador, clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov. November 17, 1998.

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• From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it...You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Thinking, Glasses

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .)

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Self, Study

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• Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

  Shakti Gawain

  People, Relationships With Others, Our Relationship

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• Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Age, Satisfaction

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
  but actually, the opposite is true.
  
  The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
  answer your questions, but to question your answers.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Teaching, Thinking

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• To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Goal, Training, Physicians

  Sherwin B. Nuland (2008). “The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine”, p.13, Random House

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