#prima

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. ↗

— George Santayana

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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. ↗

— George Santayana

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Obedience is the primary object of all sound education. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ↗

— Beverly Sills

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Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. ↗

— Charles Simeon

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I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl. ↗

— Michael Strahan

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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ↗

— Steig Larsson

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