"My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone."
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"He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw."
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"They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry."
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"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."
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"Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%."
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"If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them."
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"Eats first, morals after."
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"First the pork chops, then morality"
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"The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible."
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"We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows."
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"In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort."
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"A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first."
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"The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it."
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"Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion."
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"To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it.""
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"The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again."
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"If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it."
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"Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature."
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"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
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"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"
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