Primarily Quotes

552 quotes by 469 authors

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and… — Johan Huizinga
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but… — John Taylor Gatto
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one… — Bertrand Russell
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived. — Zig Ziglar
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will… — Jack Kornfield
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men. — Ralph Washington Sockman
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. — Bertrand Russell
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward… — Mikhail Gorbachev
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to… — John F. Kennedy
Style is primarily a matter of instinct. — Bill Blass
[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the… — Frederick Soddy
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had… — Dalai Lama
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest… — Bill Drayton
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the… — James Balog
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an all-rounder,… — Kevin Barry
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who… — Monica Raymund
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the… — Shiv Khera
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large… — Charlie Pierce
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms. — James Bovard
I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

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