"I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first."
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"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."
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"A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore"
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"A kiss is an inquiry on the second floor as to what's going on on the first floor."
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"When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake."
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"But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was."
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"Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science"
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"Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular."
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"Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains."
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"I know death follows me, but I murder him first."
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"The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over."
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"The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable."
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"Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else."
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"If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade"
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"Budget the luxuries first."
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"Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then."
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"A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel."
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"My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes"
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"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ."
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"Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first."
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