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If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Confusion
Larry Leissner

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Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
Angels
Leo The Great

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Understanding
Beca Lewis

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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
Liberals
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Belief
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
New World
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
Persuasion
Abraham Lincoln

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
Youth
Mary Little

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
Success
Los Angeles Times

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Critics and Criticism
James Russell Lowell

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
Failure
Erwin W. Lutzer

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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
Liberty
James Madison

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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
Simplicity
Thomas Mann

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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
Habit
Orison Swett Marden

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Love At First Sight
Christopher Marlowe

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Love
Christopher Marlowe

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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Survival
Andrew Marvell

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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
Self-control
Philip Massinger

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Laughter
Elsa Maxwell

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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Taste
Marshall Mcluhan

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
Life and Living
Margaret Mead

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To finish first, you must first finish.
Winners and Winning
Rick Mears

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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty
George B. Mere

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.
Action
Mexican Proverb

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Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Life and Living
Wilson Mizner

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun