"Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system."
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"In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged."
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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
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"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back."
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"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
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"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves."
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer."
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"It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense."
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"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."
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"It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others."
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"Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!"
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"Sentence first, verdict afterwards."
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"When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God."
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"Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die."
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"I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me."
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"America is a country no one should go to for the first time."
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"Those who seek a better life must first become a better person."
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"He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple."
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"As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry."
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"If you're not first, you're last."
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