"Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse."
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"Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived."
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"If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more."
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"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
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"The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities."
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"Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.""
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"Children notice things first, people later."
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"Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me."
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"Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."
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"Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first."
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"Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred."
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"When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost."
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"First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?"
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"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."
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"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."
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"The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living."
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"Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first."
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"Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions."
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"God never repents of what He has first resolved upon."
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"The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis."
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