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"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."
"You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead."
"Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world."
"The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside."
"Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind."
"If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me."
"Education is the only solution. Education first."
"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true."
"The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study."
"This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop."
"Prettiness dies first."
"Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]"
"When you're open to something it's like being a beacon, and you attract it. From the first time I heard the chanting Hare Krishna, it was like a door opened somewhere in my subconscious, maybe from some previous life."
"In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions."
"The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality."
"Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something."
"First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again."
"First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science."
"Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn."
"When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7."
