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When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

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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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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

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In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

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First of all, I don't see America having problems.

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If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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

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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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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.

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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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