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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

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

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

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The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

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

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

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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

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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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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

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We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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

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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

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The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

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