"Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid."
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"I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married."
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"It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad."
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"Scepticism is the first step towards truth."
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"All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things."
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"If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it."
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"Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!"
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"I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been."
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"I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."
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"I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo."
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"Nature's first green is gold."
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"I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again."
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"First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone."
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"Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life."
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"The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice."
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"There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance."
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"Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know"
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"I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity."
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"The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges."
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"To cook your hare you must first catch it."
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