Primaries Quotes - Page 19

• The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.

  Hugh Miller

  Agency, Rocks, Sea

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.297

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• It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell."

  Ari Marmell

  Running, Answers, Hell

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• The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

  Keith Henson

  Animal, Giving, Generations

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• The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Knowing, Rely On Yourself, Factors

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• A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

  John Wooden

  Player, People, Should

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• The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

  James Madison

  Government, Majority, Minorities

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• The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

  Thomas Paine

  Rights, Voting, Representatives

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.724, e-artnow

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• All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Leader, Peers

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• One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Winning, Tactics

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• The primary asset of any business is its organization.

  William Feather

  Organization, Assets

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• Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.

  Bob Proctor

  Imagination, Goal, Creative

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 03, 2011

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• To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Attention, Denial, Recognition

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• The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new
  plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Reason, Plans

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• This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Real, Intuition

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• If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Productive Work

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• The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Confusion, Simplicity

  "BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health".

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• The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Differences, People, Rich

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 11, 2012

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• Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Foundation, Doe

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from May 15, 2010

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Mind

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• The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.

  Joyce Brothers

  Relationship, Challenges, Needs

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• The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.

  George Will

  Class, Names, America

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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Originality

  "Prejudices: Third Series (Le Contrat Social)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

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• The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.

  Mark Batterson

  Scripture, Remember, Forget

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• Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Sports, Fun

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• The primary truth that any government will be able to stand on is that God is King, not man. The Lord created this world for His purpose, and only those who are aligned with His purpose will have the authority that can stand any pressures of the times we are entering. We can build our lives on this kingdom and nothing that happens will shake us.

  Rick Joyner

  Kings, Men, Purpose

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