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"We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands."
"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things."
"The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman."
"The first step toward success will be the biggest one."
"Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place."
"When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe."
""Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection."
"In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence."
"I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time."
"At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut."
"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
"My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first"
"There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing."
"I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history."
"But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest."
"All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them."
"See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought."
"At first I didn't dig country."
"When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative."
"I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film."
