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God's first creature, which was light.

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The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

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

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

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Well, first of all, let me say, Erik Palladino, Paul Schulze, Ian Reed Kesler, even Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Carly Pope, we just had an outstanding cast of a guest cast in [Suits].

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Get money first; virtue comes after.

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

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

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Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

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Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.

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

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Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

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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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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

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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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