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Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery… — John Boehner
If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I… — Bobby Knight
How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of… — Bill Bradley
The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments — Lee Iacocca
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll
Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the… — Denise Levertov
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths… — Gottfried Leibniz
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith. — Carl Jung
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with… — Richard Hofstadter
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe… — Antonio Damasio
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. — George Orwell
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure… — Ayn Rand
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,… — James Clerk Maxwell
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.… — Morris Kline
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force… — George Washington
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity… — Thomas Jefferson

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