"I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good."
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"I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much."
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"It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know."
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"And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values."
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"The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity."
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"To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you."
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"Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications."
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"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."
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"This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts."
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"Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers."
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"You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything."
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"I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!"
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"At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do."
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"The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired."
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"One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one."
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"Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it."
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"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education."
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"You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first."
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"I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever."
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"I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can’t have.” I blinked. “What he can’t have,” I amended, flushing."
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