"Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place."
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"The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm"
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"There should be a course in the first grade on love."
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"My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God."
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"As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified."
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"it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place."
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"The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda."
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"My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness."
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"Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion."
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"In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you."
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"Blimey,” said the other twin. “Are you — ?” “He is,” said the first twin. “Aren’t you?” he added to Harry. “What?” said Harry. “Harry Potter,” chorused the twins. “Oh, him,” said Harry. “I mean, yes, I am."
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"However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric."
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"When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
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"Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield."
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"To succeed, you must first believe you can."
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"Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first."
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"Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place."
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"The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally."
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"To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be."
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"If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it."
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