Firsts Quotes
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When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
C. S. Lewis
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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
William Gibson
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
George Horace Lorimer
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The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner
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I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.
Joanne Rowling
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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.
Brian Tracy
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
William Sloane Coffin
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
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My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
William Shenstone
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Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.
Vladimir Putin
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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.
Viswanathan Anand
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I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.
John Travolta
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There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
W. C. Fields
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
Tom Stoppard
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Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.
Seth Gabel
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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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
N.D. Wilson
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As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
George Washington
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We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
William Rehnquist
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Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
Serge Lang
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And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that I come in contact with some very old entities. And these entities have been around for a while, at least since humans first started experimenting with these plants.
D. M. Turner