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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

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The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

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Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.

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All new learning looks at first like chaos.

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I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

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Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

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We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

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If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.

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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

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The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

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