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959 Primary quotes by 761 unique authors

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 ‘[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. … 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
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

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