Primarily Quotes
552 quotes by 469 authors
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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The…
— Nikola Tesla
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A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Â Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
— Jeff Bezos
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Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with…
— Busta Rhymes
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I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes…
— Ayn Rand
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The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices…
— Thomas Sowell
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I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I…
— John Maynard Keynes
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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the…
— Marcus Buckingham
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The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because…
— James Montgomery Boice
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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.
— Robert Fisk
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I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966…
— Roald Hoffmann
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also…
— N. T. Wright
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Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
— Marvin Olasky
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It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
— Gaylord Perry
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The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
— Amartya Sen
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All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing…
— Thomas Berry
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