#prima

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. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#discovery #fascinating #i #i think #interesting

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#causal #connections #creates #establishing #facts

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#appetite #food #good #primary #requisite

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#instinct #man #passion #primarily

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. ↗

— David Attenborough

#i #interest #just #just looking #looking

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. ↗

— Dave Barry

#biological #breasts #function #make #males

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#always #care #going #good #lacking

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#because #getting #job #primarily #space