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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Salvation
Seneca

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The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
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William Shakespeare

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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]
Law and Lawyers
William Shakespeare

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To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Success
William Shakespeare

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Books - Reading
George Bernard Shaw

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
Law and Lawyers
George Bernard Shaw

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You don't have to get it right the first time.
Action
Barbara Sher

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There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
Winners and Winning
Willie Shoemaker

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Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.
Beginning
Dave Sim

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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
Tact and Tactfulness
William Gilmore Simms

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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
Influence
Socrates

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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Flattery
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Learning
Gloria Steinem

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Freedom of Speech
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.
Capitalism
Sir Richard Storey

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Marriage
Billy Sunday

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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Kisses and Kissing
Jonathan Swift

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
Risk
Jonathan Swift

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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Judgment and Judges
Publilius Syrus

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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Sin
Henry David Thoreau

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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau

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The first duty of love is to listen.
Listening
Paul Tillich

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
World
Mark Twain

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Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Preachers and Preaching
Mark Twain

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Facts
Mark Twain

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