"At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one."
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"Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute."
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"Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people."
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"To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past."
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"I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through."
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"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."
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"Trying is the first step toward failure."
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"Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect."
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"Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole."
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"There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner."
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"Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt."
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"How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning."
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"Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue."
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"When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased."
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"It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first."
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"The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting."
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"[News is] a first rough draft of history."
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"The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel."
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"When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?"
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"For me, family has always come first."
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