"A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead."
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"I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy."
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"We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best."
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"Clothing is the first step to building a character."
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"First and last follow each other."
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"First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition."
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"To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire."
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"Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage."
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"I love to write. It's my first love."
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"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."
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"I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed."
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"Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change."
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"Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us."
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"If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction."
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"I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes."
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"Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear."
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"Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place."
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"Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life."
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"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."
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"The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty."
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