Primaries Quotes - Page 6

• The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Justice, Diversity

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Yield

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.55, Youcanprint

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• There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Hue

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.14, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Pride, Sacrifice

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• Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

  Carol Bellamy

  Education, Children, War

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• Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, Science, Animal

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• Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Religious, Educational, People

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• The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Educational, Fall, Ignorance

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• In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, School

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• You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have loyalty. Loyalty was the primary trait I looked for in soldiers.

  George W. Dunaway

  Loyalty, Pride, Army

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• The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Art, Soul

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• Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wall, Flower, Bird

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• Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positivity

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2010

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• A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Kindness, Worship, Divine

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books

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• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Adventure, Humility, Walking Meditation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Struggle, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans”, p.138

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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Art, Fun, Distance

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• Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

  Ken Robinson

  Imagination, Consciousness, Humans

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

  John Boehner

  Travel, Sacrifice, Government

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• If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

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• How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Keys, Nba

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• The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspiration, Skills, Knowing

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• This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspiration, Emotional, Suffering

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.99, Zondervan

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• Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

  Denise Levertov

  Life, Names, People

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• There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Simple, Opposites

  "The philosophical works of Leibnitz".

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