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I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of… — Scott Adams
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men… — Ashley Montagu
The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get. — John C. Maxwell
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity,… — Richard Lindzen
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness. — Dalai Lama
The holiday is clearly growing in importance for the industry. Halloweens fun, enjoyable and doesn't require a big investment to celebrate. The primary focus is… — Richard Hastings
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and… — Koichiro Matsuura
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. — Thomas Szasz
I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary… — Richard Florida
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study. — Timothy Keller
The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in line within the… — John Coleman
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary,… — Gary A. Kowalski
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets… — Jeremy Begbie
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of… — Linda McQuaig
The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as… — R. U. Sirius
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth
The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. — Bruce Lee
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. — Herbert Hoover
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when… — Placido Domingo

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