"Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second."
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"The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are."
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"It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves."
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"It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up."
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"The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it."
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"First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment."
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"If you want to change the world, first change your heart."
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"So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs."
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"When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it."
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"At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts."
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"Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism."
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"I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm."
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"If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer."
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"What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself."
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"There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?"
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"God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing"
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"If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act."
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"If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth."
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