T Quotes
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“The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.”
Source: Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream
“The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.”
“The primary concern of projects in the monitoring process is the progress, the milestones achieved, the factor of complying with the time schedule, the scope, compliance with laws, and that the project is within the allocated/mobilized budget(costs).”
“The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.”
“The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.”
Source: The Economy of Cities
“The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity.”
“The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.”
“The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ.”
“The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.”
Source: The Ecology of Human Development
“The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!”
Source: Worship
“The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear”
“The primary difference between sex and death is, with death there is no dress code”
“The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.”
“The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.”
Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century
“The primary driver of most global conflict, oppression of women, suppression of science, persecution of gay people, and abuse of power is not religion. It’s the extreme fundamentalist wings of all the world’s religions that provide all these dramas for the rest of humanity.”
Source: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
“The primary driver to pathological dissociation is attachment disorganization in early life: when that is followed by severe and repeated trauma, then a major disorder of structural dissociation is created (Lyons-Ruth, Dutra, Schuder, & Bianchi, 2006).”
Source: Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation: Towards an Embodied Self
“The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.”
“The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.”
“The primary elections are the cornerstones of the plebiscitary presidency. They strip away the veneer of party unity and expose the individuality of each candidate. As contemporary selection procedures force party leaders to compete with one another in the open, they prompt them to differentiate themselves publicly and to boast of their independence of mind. Pitting potential party spokespersons against one another in public combat, these procedures undercut the credibility of the candidate's affiliation with anything other than him- or herself.”
Source: The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton
“The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.”
“The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.”
“The primary factor is proportions.”
“The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus.”
“The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.”
“The primary focus of homeschooling should be on cultivating hearts for the Lord.”
“The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.”
“The primary function of accountability should never be shaming anyone, or retribution and punishment for their mistakes.”
Source: My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different
“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”
“The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.”
“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”
“The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.”
“The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'”
Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace
“The primary goal I set for myself on how I define what success looks like for me is am I working at a company that matters? Am I working with somebody who I think affects positive change? Am I providing a benefit to my family? Am I enjoying myself? Why would I put a limitation on my enjoyment? There is an old view on Wall Street that says, 'They love you until they don't.' I am going to stay happy until I am not.”
“The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.”
“The primary goal isn't a financial gain; it's to put out interesting music.”
“The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem.”
Source: On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
“The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.”
“The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.”
“The primary goal of monotasking getting there is to arrive safely, pure and simple. It’s highly likely that the greatest risk in the average person’s day is concentrated around the times that they are in transit from one place to another.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.”
Source: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling
“The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“The primary goal of the human being should be to find the Supreme Power, the divine, God. Anything other than this is not valid or important if we want to live our life peacefully, understanding the gift of life.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The primary group is composed of people with whom you are intimately involved, including your immediate family and close friends.....Rivalries certainly occur among primary groups, such as the nineteenth-century blood feud between the Harfields and McCoys and the seemingly endless battle for the White House between the Bush and Clinton dynasties. (Rivalries are also common within families, but that's a topic for another books, or perhaps for therapy.) But rivalries are more often seen among secondary groups--the participants have chosen to identify with an institution or group, and in some way they are measuring themselves against an alternative that represents an opposing point of view.”
“The primary idea was this: One hour of planning saves three hours of execution.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.”
Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“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 of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.”
“The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.”
“The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“The primary infrastructure projects facilitating a Kashmir-Central Asia Economic Corridor via Kashmir are the Zojila Tunnel and the Z-Morh Tunnel. These projects are crucial components of the National Highway 1 (NH-1) expansion, designed to provide all-weather, year-round connectivity between Kashmir and Ladakh, ultimately targeting improved access to Central Asia.”