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"Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him."
"Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. Its not necessarily about falling in love."
"Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't."
"To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent."
"When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is."
"Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard."
"Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first."
"The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride."
"To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious."
"Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act."
"Music was my first love and companion."
"First we will be best, then we will be first"
"If you aren’t practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur."
"Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it."
"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."
"I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway."
"My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time."
"To be a great leader, first become a great person."
"You can't win unless you first begin. So start now"
"Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first."
