Best Primary Source Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.”

“Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.”

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Author:Ben Goldacre

“What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.”

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Author:Theresa Breslin

“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.”

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Author:Pat Buchanan

“I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.”

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Author:Nancy Horan

“A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.”

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Book:Philosphical Discussions

Source: Philosphical Discussions

“I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.”

“I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.”

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Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.”

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Author:Bill McKibben

“It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.”

Knows Stage Source Cancer Primaries Treatment Detection Primary Source

Book:Mortality

Source: Mortality

“Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.”

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Author:Michael Klare

“You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.”

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Author:Rachel Holmes

“If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often that writers have access to living primary source material; this was the only person who experienced life on the vaudeville circuit with Gypsy during the 1920s, and who saw her perform at Minsky's Burlesque in the 1930s. She knew things that no one else could ever possibly know.”

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Author:Karen Abbott

“The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.”

Source Setting Settings Primaries Primary Source

Author:David B. Coe

“There are literally a thousand works with the title Malcolm X in them. There are over 350 films and over 320 web-based educational resources with the title Malcolm X, yet the vast majority of them are based on secondary literatures, that is, not on primary source material.”

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Author:Manning Marable

“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.”

People Way Sometimes Social Technology Media Information Source Towns Constant Plant Social Media Employment Primaries Concrete Globalization Manufacturing Primary Source

Author:Barack Obama

“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 most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals.”

Enough Goal Focus Team Source Cost Innovation Primaries Agendas Ceo Tracking Primary Source High Goals

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“Government's the primary source of prosperity for you, if you're on the left. And if you believe that business exists to kill you, if you believe that business exists to poison you, then government is a source of prosperity for you.”

Ifs Believe Government Left Source Prosperity Primaries Poison If You Believe Primary Source

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to find? Are there new primary sources that no one has ever had access to? Are all the sources in English? If they're not, are they in a language that you speak? And I realized that not only is Armstrong the most important figure of Jazz in the 20th Century, but he's a perfect subject for a biography for all of these reasons. I had always loved his music and I had been fascinated in him as a personality. And that's really the key to writing a biography.”

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Author:Terry Teachout

“The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.”

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Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.”

“In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.”

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Author:Tom Vilsack

“It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”

World Ends Earth Past Fantasy Middle Source Type Research Familiar Primaries Historian Narnia Middle Earth Primary Source

Author:Ysabeau S. Wilce

“The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.”

“Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.”

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Author:Victor Cousin

“The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.”

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Author:Gabriel Fackre

“The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother”

Children Care Mother Source Daughter Primaries Giver Identification Mother And Daughter Primary Source

Author:Nancy Chodorow

“My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.”

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Author:Reza Aslan