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"Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own."
"When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI."
"First there must be order and harmony within your own mind."
"Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?"
"That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it."
"I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'"
"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
"Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first."
"There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly."
"Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want."
"No science ever defends its first principles."
"Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love."
"The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man."
"Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down."
"Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it."
"Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others."
"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
"The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco."
"If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you."
"Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe."
