"Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself."
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"It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first."
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"First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality."
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"That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversations that are a result of it are the sorts of conversations that I think are the ultimate, most valuable by-product of what I'm doing."
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"I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election."
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"First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination."
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"Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here."
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"When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing."
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"Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see."
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"Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first."
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"The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it."
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"Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually."
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"Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise."
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"She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous."
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"In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety."
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"Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists."
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"In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible."
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"Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost."
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"At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal."
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"In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message."
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