"Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense."
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"Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first."
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"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American."
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"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."
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"Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories."
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"Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous."
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"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."
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"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work."
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"Wonder is the first of all the passions."
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"Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution."
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"First impressions are always unreliable."
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"In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable"
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"What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others."
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"Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts."
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"His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears."
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"The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist."
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"A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone."
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"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."
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"Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think."
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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