T Quotes
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“The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction.”
Source: Letters to John Law
“The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.”
“The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.”
“The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there.”
“The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.”
“The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new
plans to replace those plans that didn't work.”
“The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.”
Source: Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
“The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.”
“The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.”
“The primary reason Jesus came to earth was to inaugurate the Kingdom of God. Often, we hear that the reason Jesus came to the earth was to die on the Cross. Jesus did come to die on the Cross, but that death on the Cross was for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God.”
“The primary reason of depression due to failure is not being prepared for the worst case scenario. The secondary reason of depression from failure is not resorting to the support required to float.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.”
“The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live one life, and so you get to see other lives through these characters.”
“The primary reason that I’m not a representative of specific groups or schools of thought is that that choice gives me the freedom to look at these groups and thoughts from the inside and the outside. I’m trying to be honest in that role—what really works here and what does not? That is, I have nothing to sell or win by any given position. I’m promoting a similar process for any person I interact with in my work, including toward me.
Investment in a given idea or group tends to immediately shut down options for perception, and then choice. Prejudice, bigotry and arrogance breed from that. One is forced to think a certain way to stay within the group or thought, and then to defend against apparent opposition. This constructs and feeds the kinds of adamant separation and conflict we see so many manifestations of on every level. In many cases, it’s also the cause of deep internal conflict in most individuals, yet it isn’t really addressed.”
“The primary reason to leave was her art; the singular reason to stay was a man.”
Source: Meet the Earl at Midnight
“The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.”
Source: Next Generation Leader
“The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”
Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
“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 of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
“The primary reward of the gospel - God himself”
“The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.”
Source: Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh
“The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage”
“The primary role of the Atharva chakra is to block the cytokine storm or immunity turmoils in the body. It stops the overproduction of immune cells. This chakra is activated by the herbs like Peperomia pellucida and inhibits excess ACE activities.”
Source: Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions
“The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system. It's not the government's responsibility, nor are they equipped to do that on the most local level where the need exists.”
“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.”
“The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company”
“The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments”
“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 women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.”
“The primary source of injustice arises from the actions of unfavorable attitudes & deplorable conduct. These behaviors have become the norm rather than the exception. The notion of it is repulsive. It is such a pity that our nation has fallen victim to so much injustice and prejudice that each individual is in opposition to the other.”
“The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.”
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.”
“The primary source of water for the Flood was the springs of the great deep bursting forth (Genesis 7:1127). This water in turn likely provided some of the water in the “windows of heaven” in an indirect fashion. There is no need for an ocean of vapor above the atmosphere to provide for extreme amounts of water for the rain that fell during the Flood.”
Source: A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter
“The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”
Source: The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
“The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.”
“The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.”
“The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.”
“The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.”
“The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.”
“The primary thing that determines how effective your life is how you carry out your calling”
“The primary thing that I enjoy about Luke Cage is that he has a morality about him but it's conflicted. He's never sure what the right move is, but he at least contemplates it. He's a not a rash character. It's that thoughtfulness that I really identify with.”
“The primary thing that people are going to try to take away from you— is the purity of your happiness. Rare is it to find in someone a pure happiness. A happiness so innocent, so spontaneous and so raw... it is the way we are born but it is most often not the way that we die. The world comes in and tries to take that away from you. People come in and try to take that away from you. I have learned not to jump into the pigsty with them. You have to protect the purity of your happiness and the innocence of your joy. People WILL try to take it away. Don't go there, don't let them. Keep what is yours.”
“The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”
Source: A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind
“The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.”
“The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.”
“The primary truth that any government will be able to stand on is that God is King, not man. The Lord created this world for His purpose, and only those who are aligned with His purpose will have the authority that can stand any pressures of the times we are entering. We can build our lives on this kingdom and nothing that happens will shake us.”
“The primary type of value stream is one in which a good or service is requested by and delivered to an external customer. Other value streams support the delivery of value; we refer to these as value-enabling or supporting value streams.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.”