"The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing."
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"No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself."
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"Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible."
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"The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise."
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"The bulldogs with the first points on the board. Tim Tebow looking to change that."
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"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion."
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
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"The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act."
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"The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind."
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"A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools."
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"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"
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"The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success."
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"Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is."
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"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
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"I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will."
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"The first draft of anything is sh*t."
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"After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela."
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"Truth is the first of jewels."
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"He who would be free must strike the first blow."
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"In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names"
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