"The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government."
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"The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us."
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"The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T."
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"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."
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"'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films."
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"Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place."
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"Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others."
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"And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place."
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"Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?"
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"I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart."
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"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior."
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"I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!"
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"Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
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"Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!"
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"Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison."
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"This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom."
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"Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place."
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"Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous."
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"I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky."
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"Freedom is often the first casualty of war."
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