"The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people."
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"Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness."
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"Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations."
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"The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable."
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"First thoughts are the strongest."
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"I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them."
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"For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
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"Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me."
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"There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles."
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"By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations."
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"As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail."
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"Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied."
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"Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice"
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"Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought."
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"Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all."
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"The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation."
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"We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst"
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"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"
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