"A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all."
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"Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong."
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"Drop dead-but first get permit"
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"The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it."
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"If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone."
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"First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time."
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"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."
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"The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist."
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"I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails."
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"'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies."
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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
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"Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones."
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"I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures."
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"Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match."
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"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time."
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"We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts."
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"If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?"
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"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us"
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"The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being."
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"You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live."
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