"From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress."
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"It is the first duty of every man not to be poor."
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"The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it."
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"This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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"One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better."
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"The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'."
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"Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."
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"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first."
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"It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life."
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"Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."
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"Be first the master of yourself"
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"The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it."
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"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
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"First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do."
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"The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city."
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"One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations."
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"First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us."
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"At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place."
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"Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth."
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"Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse."
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