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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
"If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place."
"The groves were God's first temples."
"Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange."
"Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally."
"I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results."
"I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team."
"I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!"
"I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing"
"My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston."
"To destroy is always the first step in any creation."
"To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams."
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
"There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one."
"If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself."
"I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me."
"Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity."
"I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home."
"I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you."
"The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge."
