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"The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself."
"I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile."
"I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since."
"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."
"Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose."
"All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially."
"Journalism is the first draft of history"
"You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?"
"The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods."
"Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities."
"Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit."
"I don't think I remember my first memory."
"The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain"
"It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray."
"My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself."
"Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action."
"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."
"Hitler was the first superstar."
"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first."
"The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them."
