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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
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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
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The Hulk screamed primally, from a deep place, and lunged.
Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011
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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.
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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
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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
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The Hulk screamed primally, from a deep place, and lunged.
Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011
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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
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Looking primally, a man does not want his finite resources used to raise another man's child.
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Women tend to be more primally territorial of a man's attention and resources.
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