Aristotle Quotes, Race Quotes, Firsts Quotes

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

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No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say to yourself is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.

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

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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

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You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

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To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

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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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Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

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There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

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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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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

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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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With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

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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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