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"When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."
"The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection."
"Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you."
"I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with."
"I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker."
"I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it."
"Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first."
"No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say to yourself is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life."
"I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work."
"No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love."
"If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place."
"That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process."
"A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first."
"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."
"The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing."
"He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life."
"He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war."
"In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few."
"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"
"Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place."
