Quotes with secondary

  • The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

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  • Walter Lippmann The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Swami Vivekananda We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
    Swami Vivekananda
    Hindu philosopher (1863 - 1902)
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  • Bill Hicks Good theory. But guess what, if I don't smoke there's going to be secondary bullets coming your way, 'cause I'm that tense.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bryan Fuller I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Karl Kraus Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Bragg Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Cary Grant My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Cary Grant My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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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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  • Francis Bacon Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Aldous Huxley Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Henry Miller The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Billy Joel When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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