"... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them."
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"It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius."
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"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well."
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"The first duty of man is that of subduing fear."
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"The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it."
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"We're so concerned about being polite in society, and rightfully so, that it carries over onto a football team. But on a good football team, they are your friends, but first and foremost they have to be good teammates."
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"We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost."
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"The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin."
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"The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor."
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"Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first."
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"The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!"
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"First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money."
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"Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?"
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"When you want to court a woman, court her sister first"
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"John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use."
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"Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow."
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"Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up."
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"The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have."
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"Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is."
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"In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself."
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