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Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’ — Lucy R. Lippard
The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary. — Alexander Elder
When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed. — Charles Horace Mayo
I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary.… — Alberto Giacometti
Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is… — Henry David Thoreau
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific… — Viktor E. Frankl
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. — Kim Campbell
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in… — Raymond Queneau
Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain. — Amit Goswami
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern… — Galileo Galilei
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
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)… — C.S. Lewis
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop… — David Frum
To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches. — Horace
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn,… — Georges Clemenceau
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring… — William Butler Yeats
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological… — Albert Einstein
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind… — Joseph Campbell
One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary. — Billy Graham
So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary.… — Ayelet Waldman
Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school.… — George Weah

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