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336 quotesThe second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
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Thomas Jefferson
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If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!
Perseverance
George Jessel
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Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Competition
Ben Jipcho
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Critics and Criticism
Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Courage
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Achievement
Samuel Johnson
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Effort
Samuel Johnson
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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
Tragedies
Samuel Johnson
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Understanding
Franz Kafka
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Peace
Thomas Kempis
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
Weakness
Thomas Kempis
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We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
Competition
John F. Kennedy
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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
Risk
Soren Kierkegaard
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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
Success
Kirk Kirkpatrick
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Autobiography
Henry Kissinger
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Belief
Michael Korda
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The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Respectability
Maggie Kuhn
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Friends and Friendship
Jean De La Bruyere
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The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.
Guests
Edouard R. Laboulaye
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Giving
Lao-Tzu
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Genius
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.
Enthusiasm
Reggie Leach
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The first requisite for immortality is death.
Immortality
Stanislaw J. Lec
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun