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The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must… — David Emerald Womeldorff
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. — Albert Einstein
The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.â€¦ On natural principles, a treaty, which should… — Alexander Hamilton
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an… — John Hume
The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for… — John Hume
To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of… — James Madison
In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right. — Paul Ryan
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its… — Piet Mondrian
It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but â€˜[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed,… — Jane Jacobs
I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to… — Malcolm X
I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness… — Audre Lorde
During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. â€¦ He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head. I thought it meant… — Christine O'Donnell
While I think the earth is warming, I don't think that man-made causes are the primary factor. — Ken Buck
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on… — George Allen
Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines… — Harry Allen Overstreet
Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.… — Abraham Lincoln

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