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All new learning looks at first like chaos.

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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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Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

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To become a leader, you must first become a human being

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions.

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

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To cook your hare you must first catch it.

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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

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Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

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I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

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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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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

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Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

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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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Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

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