Firsts Quotes
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.
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You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
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Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.
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To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?
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I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing.
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True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
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Mental health courts exist because the system has failed.
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In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
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Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.
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First you have to have a dream.
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In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
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Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.
