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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama

Life, Hurt, Help

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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Color, Green, Loveliness

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

Life, True, Friends

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

Down, Find, Enough

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher

Lonely, Job, Cannot

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher

Time, Yourself, Woman

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
James Cash Penney

Life, Work, Hard

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James Dean

Trust, Yourself, Two

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. Gardner

Simple, Political, Two

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
Mason Cooley

Until, Afterwards

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
David Icke

Fear, Down, Friends

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
Dave Barry

Time, Live, Human

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
Iain Duncan Smith

Leadership, Important, Political

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin Bevan

Genius, Empty, Labels

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
William Hague

Two, Public, Himself

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
Christiaan Barnard

Life, Goal, Suffering

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
King Abdullah II

Peace, Live, Together

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
Conan O'Brien

Time, War, Government

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Havelock Ellis

Love, Husband, Himself

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Leonhard Euler

Mind, Human, Reason

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.
Ric Flair

Work, Hard, Problem

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Experience, Books, Educators

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.
David Cameron

Positive, Future, Play

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Boris Johnson

Chance, Finding, Becoming

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.
David Cameron

Whole, United, England

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.
Herman Cain

Real, Blame, Him

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Friendship, Mother

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
Peter Singer

Power, Respect, Different

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
William Hague

Politics, Same, Again

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
George McGovern

Full, Europe, Oil

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