"Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT."
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"I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win."
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"There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them."
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"My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him."
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"I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of."
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"Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion."
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"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
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"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy."
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"I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest."
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"I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing."
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"I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist."
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"Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time."
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"Your next step is simple. You are the first domino."
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"If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation."
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"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
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"When I first started out, I was a bad actor."
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"I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot."
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"the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me"
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"I train for the first shot – it’s all I need."
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"First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned."
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