"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
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"A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock."
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"First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left."
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"First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards."
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"See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary."
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"The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again."
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"Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one."
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"What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it."
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"Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses."
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"First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier."
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"Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball."
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"Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems."
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"Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous."
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"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."
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"Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism."
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"Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy."
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"What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him."
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"Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end."
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"I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it."
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"There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last"
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