"If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America."
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"How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!"
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"In order to die, you must first have lived."
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"From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen."
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"When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you."
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"Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off."
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"The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach."
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"I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride."
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"That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it."
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"Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!"
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"The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture."
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"The first slave to read and write was the first to run away."
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"The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable."
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"It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'"
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"It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology."
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"The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them."
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"I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes."
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"True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads."
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"There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on."
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"I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us."
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