"On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title."
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"People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments."
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"The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant."
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"Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place."
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"New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media."
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"Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times."
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"If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances."
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"My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time."
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"If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it."
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"Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first."
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"Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator."
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"Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty."
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"We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan."
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"Music is first, lyrics are secondary."
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"Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first."
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"The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions."
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"It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself."
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"They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse."
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"To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased."
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"Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it."
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