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

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No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

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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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And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

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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 first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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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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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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First of all, Mets fans despise me.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

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

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Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

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