"My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age."
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"My mother was my first jealous lover."
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"Time cures you first, and then it kills you."
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"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
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"I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter."
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"If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others"
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"It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place."
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"...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with."
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"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."
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"One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism."
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"Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash."
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"When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with."
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"If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad."
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"First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking."
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"Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."
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"Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more."
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"I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you."
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"A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful."
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"To break the pentameter, that was the first heave"
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"Nothing happens... but first a dream."
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