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"It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other."
"The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former."
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
"Peace is first of all the art of being."
"I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland"
"Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert."
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself."
"Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!"
"There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer."
"The devil was the first democrat"
"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first."
"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."
"An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors."
"It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation."
"Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself."
"Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics."
"Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place."
"The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry."
"The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out."
