Plato Quotes, What Matters Quotes, Firsts Quotes

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

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If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

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To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

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

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To become a leader, you must first become a human being

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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

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It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

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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 ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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First of all, Mets fans despise me.

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That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

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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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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

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