Primaries Quotes - Page 40

• The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

  Eric Voegelin

  Lying, Balance, Cosmos

  Eric Voegelin, Michael Franz (2000). “Order and History”, p.123, University of Missouri Press

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• It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

  Susan Howatch

  Philosophical, Pages, Duty

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• The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.

  Larry Gagosian

  Art, Responsibility, Noses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Campaigns, Financial

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• The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.

  Andrew S. Gilbert

  Home, Musical, Musician

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• Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Thinking, Hatred

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• Knowing His will is more valuable than all the treasures we could ever have, and we must always esteem knowing His will as the true treasure, and therefore make it the primary thing that we seek.

  Rick Joyner

  Knowing, Treasure, Valuable

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Dec 23, 2014

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• How many people on Earth serve people? And how many people on Earth serve the Earth? The difference in the numbers must be enormous. It would reveal that the Earth is definitely not the primary concern of the human species. This might be fatal both to the Earth and to humanity. Please, leaders of the Earth and the nations, wake up to this potentially fatal disparity.

  Robert Muller

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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• The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Deceit, Values

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• Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.

  Michael Klare

  Unique, Oil, Energy

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• My primary goal is to create prosperity.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Goal, Prosperity

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For me, the primary focus must be words, sentences, paragraphs.

  Dana Spiotta

  Character, Air, Issues

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Well Being, Concern, Wells

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• The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

  Martin Compston

  School, Lasts, Last Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

  Wendy McElroy

  School, People, Goal

  Wendy McElroy (1982). “Demystifying the State”

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• Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Real, Feel Good

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• In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.

  C. Sommerville

  Christian, Children, Character

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• The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Campaigns, Want

  Interview with Leon Harri, www.politico.com. February 11, 2008.

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• It was just revealed that Donald Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over 20 years. Or in simpler terms, Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over three wives.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Wife, Three

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• Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Exercise, Weapons

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims . . . were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc. It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians . . . It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for undermining civil liberties and internal freedom.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Blow, People

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• The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

  Dave Barry

  Government, Here I Am, Paper

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Self, Essence

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.158

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