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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

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The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

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In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

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John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, "Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task."

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Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."

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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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