"Faithfulness and sincerity first of all."
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"If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?"
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"St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake."
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"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
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"He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time."
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"And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life."
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"First feed the face, then talk right and wrong."
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"Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new."
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"When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about."
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"It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first."
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"We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)"
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"A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society."
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"Everybody's the first somebody, y'know."
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"Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first."
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"If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
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"You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all"
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"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
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"L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth."
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"In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions"
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"The gravity is the first thing which you don't think"
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