"This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts."
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"People first. Technology second."
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"The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio."
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"Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos."
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"To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy."
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"You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first."
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"When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends."
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"The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate."
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"There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up."
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"The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave."
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"Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind."
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"Humility is first, second and third in Christianity."
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"It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so."
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"Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility."
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"First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it."
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"You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing."
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"The first step to greatness is to be honest."
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"To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote."
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"Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy."
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"Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction."
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