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  • Brendan Myers My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Baruj Benacerraf My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Capper Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Aldous Huxley Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • James Baldwin The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Arne Jacobsen The primary factor is proportions.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Robert Brustein The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
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  • Bruce Lee The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • George Santayana The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Denis Waitley There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Camille Paglia Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bell Hooks What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Brad Schneider If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
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