"You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them."
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"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
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"Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow."
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"There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts."
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"When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love."
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"In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first."
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"Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now!"
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"What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be."
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"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you."
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"A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song"
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"Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge."
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"The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first."
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"First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability."
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"Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism."
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"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
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"If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first."
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"First thought, best thought."
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"Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create."
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"Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster."
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"At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect."
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