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• What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

  Martin Amis

  Defense, Nuclear, Target

  "Einstein's Monsters". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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• The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Language, Socialism

  Speech at Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, 8 June 1949, in 'Report of the 48th Annual Conference' (1949) p. 172

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• I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.

  Vaclav Havel

  Believe, Character, Rights

  "Le Monde" Newspaper, April 29, 1999.

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• Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

  Warren Farrell

  Suicide, Want, Prioritize

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

  Alfred Bester

  Men, Giving, Decision

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Strong, Queens

  "Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

  Gunther Schuller

  Age, Calling, Composer

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• So far as the government is concerned, there is ­only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and the integrity of the country are the topmost priorities. All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Integrity, Book

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 07, 2015.

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• I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.

  Richard Branson

  Passionate, Planets, Species

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Priorities In Life, Knees

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• My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Kids, Numbers, People

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• What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.

  Keith Olbermann

  Health, Self, Availability

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• We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Goal, Growth

  Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, en.kremlin.ru. May 10, 2006.

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• The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Party, Socialist Party, Socialist

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• My priorities? The environment, the environment, the environment.

  Menzies Campbell

  Environment

  "'My Priorities? The Environment, the Environment, the Environment'" by Michael White and Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2006.

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• I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Sports, Country, Character

  "Tanzania: Mkapa - 'I Do Not Hate Sports'". allafrica.com. May 07, 2011.

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• Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

  Manly Hall

  Philosophy, Substance, Estimating

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1928.

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• If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

  Benjamin Carson

  Risk, Environment, Removal

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Logic, Logical, Arrangements

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 74), 1968.

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• While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

  Ellen Willis

  Order, Luxury, Numbers

  "No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays". Book by Ellen Willis, "Lust Horizons: Is the Woman's Movement Pro-Sex?" (1981), 1992.

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• With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

  Josette Sheeran

  Focus, Receiving, Climate

  "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" - which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Believe, Mean, Past

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 212), March 27, 1968.

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• Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army.

  Kim Jong Il

  Country, Military, Party

  "The Songun-based Revolutionary Line Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-victorious Banner of Our Revolution". Address to the senior officials of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party, January 29, 2003.

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• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Empowerment, Example, Gender Equality

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• Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

  Nick Saban

  Character, Habit, Accumulation

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