"The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first."
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"If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized."
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"Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?"
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"Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control."
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"Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time."
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"The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them."
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"Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing."
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"The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses."
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"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards."
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"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first."
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"To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion."
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"Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most."
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"Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages."
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"I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step."
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"The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black."
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"I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends."
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"It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place."
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"The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered."
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"The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight."
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"Harmony is something we must have with others, but it must start inside us first."
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