#prim

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#called #code #development #embodied #end

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#game #name #objective #opponent #primary

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#honor #imperative #last #primitive #senate

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#attacked #because #century #critics #documents

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. ↗

— Louise Mensch

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I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#anybody #candidate #foist #i #i think

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dread #fear #fearful #feel #flattered

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#armament #defend #defense #faith #machines