"No man can write who is not first a humanitarian"
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"Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct."
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"So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."
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"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."
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"Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered."
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"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
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"I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion."
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"As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me."
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"The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law."
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"I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day."
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"In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it."
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"Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar."
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"First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income."
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"Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe."
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"When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not."
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"The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work."
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"The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful"
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"Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?"
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"Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in ’87 or ’88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. We’ve never had that before.""
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"To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again."
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