"The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance."
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"To become a leader, you must first become a human being"
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"Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission."
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"nonviolence first changes the individual."
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"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties."
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"Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville."
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"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."
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"Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion."
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"I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life."
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"Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first."
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"The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step."
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"Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up"
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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
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"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."
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"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve."
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"Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics."
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"Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at."
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"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
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"If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change."
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"They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him."
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