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  • Thus [in order to primal intellection] there must be a unity in duality, while a pure unity with no counterbalancing duality can have no object for its intellection and ceases to be intellective: in other words the primally intellective must be at once simplex and something else.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • The Essence described as the primally existent cannot be a shadow cast by Being, but must possess Being entire; and Being is entire when it holds the form and idea of intellection and of life.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • The Hulk screamed primally, from a deep place, and lunged.

    Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011

  • Since the Oscars, if I can get to sleep, I wake up in a cold sweat sitting up with a start panicking that I'm late, or naked, or wearing a rubbish bag or something too primally frightening to even recognise.

    Lucy Walker: My Oscars diary | Feature 2011

  • Leadership is not about supporting your friends, encouraging democracy and speaking from the heart about what is primally right.

    White House elevates its rhetoric on Iranian election fraud. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Every person, every mammal, comes into this world powerfully, primally, connected to the mother who bore them, the source and the resource of their life.

    Donna Henes: Connecting To The World Wide Web Of Life Donna Henes 2011

  • The Hulk screamed primally, from a deep place, and lunged.

    Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011

  • Every person, every mammal, comes into this world powerfully, primally, connected to the mother who bore them, the source and the resource of their life.

    Donna Henes: Connecting To The World Wide Web Of Life Donna Henes 2011

  • Looking primally, a man does not want his finite resources used to raise another man's child.

    Why Women Stay With Cheating Men? 2010

  • Women tend to be more primally territorial of a man's attention and resources.

    Why Women Stay With Cheating Men? 2010

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