"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."
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"The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."
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"The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away."
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"I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet"
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"War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups."
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"Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique."
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"Find first, seek later."
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"One sits down first; one thinks afterwards."
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"First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up."
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"There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?"
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"emotion is first of all and in principle an accident"
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"I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked you right and proper otherwise. She has a tendency to shrivel someone first and then introduce herself afterwards." "That's uncalled for!" I said, insulted at the suggestion that I was homicidal. "Right." Bones let that go. "Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I've been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I've said is... an understatement."
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"Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the same as an attack on the United States itself," Bones finished, still in that deadly calm manner. "Heard you the first time - and didn't give a shite then, either."
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"This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices."
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"Survival first, then heartbreak."
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"There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting."
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"I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood."
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"I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step."
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"Much of my work has been done in first person."
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"There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action."
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