"For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first."
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"You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first."
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"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
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"The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit."
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"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
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"I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy."
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"Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all."
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"Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."
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"The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world."
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"The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first."
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"For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable."
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"First the grub, then the morals."
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"Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time."
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"For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still."
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"It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too."
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"First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along."
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"That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error."
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"My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."
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"Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second"
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"She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time."
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