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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

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

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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First of all, you never retire. At least I don't retire.

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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

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

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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

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We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.

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What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

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

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

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The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

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All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

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

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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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