Primary Quotes
959 Primary quotes by 761 unique authors
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The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
— Mark Twain
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I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern…
— Karl Hess
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In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
— Tahir Shah
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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background…
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell of…
— Jill Bolte Taylor
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The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There…
— Viktor Schauberger
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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
— Aristotle
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The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or…
— David Hume
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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
— Gottfried Leibniz
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But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at…
— Han Suyin
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If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
— Robert Brustein
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The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
— Theo de Raadt
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The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in…
— Alexander Lowen
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement…
— William Farr
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