"We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue."
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"The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value."
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"Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse."
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"Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?"
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"I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character."
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"One must have first of all a solid foundation."
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"My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less."
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"Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant."
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"The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight."
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"On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time."
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"I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway"
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"A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end."
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"You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy."
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"When in doubt, try nutrition first."
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"Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence."
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"The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more."
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"The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first."
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"The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ."
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"I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations."
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"When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing."
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