"It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself."
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"First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day."
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"Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first."
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"When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band."
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"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."
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"I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later."
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"One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton."
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"Our first intuitions are the true ones."
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"On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly."
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"Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)"
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"I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom."
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"There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made."
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"Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller."
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"We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."
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"First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect."
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"It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life."
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"We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong."
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"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy."
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"Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind"
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"If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration."
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