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• The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Japan, Break Through

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Mar. 1942

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• Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Religious, Compassion

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• The body is our primary feedback mechanism which can show us what is and isn't working about our ways of thinking, expressing, and living. As we live our truth more fully and freely, our body grows healthier, stronger, and more beautiful.

  Shakti Gawain

  Beautiful, Thinking, Stronger

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.

  Gary North

  Believe, Men, Goal

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• A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Rejection, Fantasy

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• Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Humanity, Adults

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• I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred to themselves, rather than with social cost efficiency. Logically, this would mean that democratic government would be inefficient in reducing social costs.

  Gordon Tullock

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Gordon Tullock, Charles Kershaw Rowley (2005). “The economics of politics”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The primary goal I set for myself on how I define what success looks like for me is am I working at a company that matters? Am I working with somebody who I think affects positive change? Am I providing a benefit to my family? Am I enjoying myself? Why would I put a limitation on my enjoyment? There is an old view on Wall Street that says, 'They love you until they don't.' I am going to stay happy until I am not.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Wall, Love You, Thinking

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• But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.

  Martin Feldstein

  Years, Expansion, Dollars

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• Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sex, Children, Order

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• People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  People, Needs, Realizing

  "Energy Healed Me - Over the Phone! A Scientist Explains How". Interview with Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.

  Mark Penn

  Winning, Election, Democratic

  "Clinton camp begins 11th hour effort" by David Paul Kuhn, www.politico.com. February 16, 2008.

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• Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.

  Bill Kraus

  Political, Television, Information

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• It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

  Marya Mannes

  Children, Television, Damage

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• It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Children, Class, Cities

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

  Hippocrates

  Fall, Home, Exercise

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• The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

  Cato the Younger

  Silence, Tongue, Quiet

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• Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Men, Giving

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius”, p.283

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• One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Goal, Should

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Optimistic, Simple, Republic

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

  William Safire

  Book, Should Have, Intellectual

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Flames

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• The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christianity, Declaration, Happened

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.68, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Education, Sex, Children

  Phyllis Bottome (1948). “Search for a Soul”, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock [1948]

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• The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

  Max Weber

  Teacher, Party, Mean

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.147, Routledge

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