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That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend… — Robert W. Firestone
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around… — Chip Conley
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous. — Ravi Zacharias
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience… — A J Liebling
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful,… — Sebastian Junger
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the… — Andrzej Wajda
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. — Peter Drucker
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer. — Timothy Keller
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income… — Michael Tanner
The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I… — Douglas MacArthur
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond… — Dalai Lama
The body is our primary feedback mechanism which can show us what is and isn't working about our ways of thinking, expressing, and living. As… — Shakti Gawain
The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger… — Gary North
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection. — Warren Farrell
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of… — Aldous Huxley
I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred… — Gordon Tullock
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports… — Martin Feldstein
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through… — Saint Francis de Sales
People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes. — Bruce H. Lipton
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy. — Bill Kraus
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. — Marya Mannes
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through… — Anne Graham Lotz
Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from… — Hippocrates

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