"There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight."
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"First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination."
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"When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune."
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"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
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"I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything."
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"He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind."
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"Virtue is the first title of nobility."
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"Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!"
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"Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power."
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"Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak."
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"For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man."
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"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling."
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"I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first."
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"Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place."
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"When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get."
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"For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes."
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"The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience."
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"The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right."
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"Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled."
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"In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy."
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