"truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny."
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"But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade."
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"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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"The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck."
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"This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---"
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"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"
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"Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise."
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"Truth is always the first casualty of war."
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"All new learning looks at first like chaos."
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"The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life."
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"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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"A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth."
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"Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last."
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"The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'"
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"I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart."
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"A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate."
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"The whole banquet is in the first spoonful."
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"love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived."
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"... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
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