#primary

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. ↗

— Sue Grafton

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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#american #american spirit #different #language #liberty

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games. ↗

— John Hume

#achievement #achievements #avoided #before #complete

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

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#misery #primary #primary source #source #vice

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#explain #felt #i #motivations #never

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#art #audience #consumer #distance #maintain

Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#basically #because #campaign #going #largest

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#bailouts #bill #cut #end #fact

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

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