Primaries Quotes - Page 8

• Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Energy, Atoms, Vibrations

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.648, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Political, Care, Wealth

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1837). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution”, p.55

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• Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.

  Bruce D. Porter

  War, Government, America

  Bruce D. Porter (1994). “War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics”

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• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

  Ross Macpherson Smith

  Men, Air, Pilots

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• A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Doubt

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

  John P. Kotter

  Business, Management, Economics

  John P. Kotter (2008). “Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth.

  John Playfair

  Science, Animal, Rocks

  John Playfair, James George Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.32

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• Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.

  Ann Reed

  Song, Writing, Feelings

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• Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown.

  Jacques Vallee

  Stupid, Teaching, Moon

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• My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Punishment, Ideas

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.340, Princeton University Press

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• The bottom line is more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary issue on the agenda when Congressional leaders meet with the President later today, Wednesday, May the 9th, 1990. And good morning, welcome to Today. It’s a Wednesday morning, a day when the budget picture, frankly, seems gloomier than ever. It now seems the time has come to pay the fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Morning, Years, Issues

  "The Today Show", NBC, May 9, 1990.

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• At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.

  Lily Collins

  Running, Children, School

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• One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Opponents, Said

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• Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

  William Kristol

  Clinton, Beats, Democratic

  "Edward Kennedy, Frederick Smith, P.X. Kelley, Roundtable". Fox News Sunday, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 17, 2006.

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• I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

  James Frecheville

  School, Years, Play

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• Gingrich - primary mission
  
  Advocate of civilization
  
  Definer of civilization
  
  Teacher of the Rules of Civilization...
  Leader (Possibly) of the civilizing forces...

  Newt Gingrich

  Teacher, Civilization, Leader

  "The 'Teacher of the Rules of Civilization' Gets a Scolding" by Adam Clymer, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 1997.

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• This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement.

  Chris Larson

  Retirement, Rights, Decision

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• My primary responsibility is to be funny.

  Al Madrigal

  Responsibility

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• If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election

  Steve Lonegan

  Battle, Hitting, Election

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• It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush I—almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without a serious primary challenge, by contrast, was Herbert Hoover. But in truth, the chances that Obama will face a primary challenge are vanishingly slim, and the chances that he will lose reelection only slightly higher. No wonder conservatives are fantasizing about Hillary Clinton taking down Barack Obama. If she doesn't, it's unlikely they will.

  Peter Beinart

  Challenges, President, Would Be

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• In this fast paced world it is too frequently the case that people accept what society, family members and the authorities, whom nobody ever seems to question, believe regarding how to live their lives. And yet, the happiest people I know have been those who have accepted the primary responsibility for their own spiritual and physical well-being - those who have inner strength, courage, determination, common sense and faith in the process of creating more balanced and satisfying lives for themselves.

  Ann Wigmore

  Spiritual, Determination, Believe

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• I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Engagement, World

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

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• I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

  Tadao Ando

  Wall, Mean, Cities

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• I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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