"Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something."
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"I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more."
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"Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications."
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"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."
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"When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings"
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"I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that."
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"We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it."
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"First sign of madness, talking to your own head."
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"I'm a runner first before anything else."
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"This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father."
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"One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily."
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"Public instruction should be the first object of government."
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"Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you."
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"I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened."
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"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman."
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"There is no doing in the world without being first."
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"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most."
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"One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money."
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"First you get a habit, then it gets you."
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"Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service."
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