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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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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

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

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Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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

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

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O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

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Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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

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

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

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