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• I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

  Rebecca West

  Confusion, Use, Tests

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.11, iUniverse

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• I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: “You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.”

  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Keys, Order, Messages

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• It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

  David Mamet

  Views, Issues, Abortion

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.163, Penguin

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• His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Effort, Enemy

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• Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.

  Richard Wilbur

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.434, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

  David Eddings

  College, Hands, Names

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• [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough of it—this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Sleep, Exercise, Use

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• When we are old and these rejoicing veins
  Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
  And out of all our burning there remains
  No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
  This be our solace: that it was not said
  When we were young and warm and in our prime,
  Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
  Sleeping away the unreturning time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

  Marya Mannes

  Men, Our Society, Fellowship

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

  Neil Kinnock

  War, House, Majority

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Impact, Ideas

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• Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

  Leonard Pitts

  Leader, Helping, Greater Good

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• 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?

  William of Ockham

  Numbers, Bother, Can Do

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• Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Ideas, Long, Sound

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• Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ - for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; men (and women) who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men (and women) completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Jesus, Educational, Men

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• My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Moving On, Happy, Moving Forward

  Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.nas.gov.sg. January 24, 2004.

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• One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

  Alex Cox

  Law, Study, Ministers

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• The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a prime example. Even though Obama KNEW - from the moment of the assault - that it was a TERRORIST attack, he didn't let the American people know.

  Chuck Norris

  People, Example, Moments

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• The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

  Denis Thatcher

  Country, Spring, Party

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• Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

  Paris Reidhead

  Men, Doe, Lord

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• I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Couple, Politics, Sometimes

  'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  Nicholas Fairbairn

  Taken, Wine, Thinking

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• Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Opportunity, Government

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• Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

  Carol Thatcher

  Girl, Mother, World

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