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Definition of Primarily
Primarily

In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

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First, In, Intention, Manner, Originally, Place, Primary, The


Primarily Quotations

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Norman Borlaug

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Eric Hoffer

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
Barney Frank

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

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

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Richard Schickel

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

Primarily Translations

primarily in German is erstrangig


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