Al Franken Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Firsts Quotes

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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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

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

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Being the first born gives you great patience.

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I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

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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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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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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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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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

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

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

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We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

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First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

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Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

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First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

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