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"The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base."
"My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got."
"Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity."
"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
"Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage."
"Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new."
"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."
"My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings."
"If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know."
"The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step."
"Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life."
"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."
"We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!"
"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
"The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not."
"It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league."
"It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself."
"First we build the tools, then they build us."
"Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another."
