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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
Idiots
Mark Twain

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Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
Children
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
Consciousness
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Effort
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In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.
Common Sense
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Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
Success
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Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
Romance and Romanticism
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Nothing arouses more hope than the first four hours of a diet.
Diets and Dieting
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Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.
Taxes and Taxation
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On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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The first rule of focus is Wherever you are be there.
Focus
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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
Business
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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself
Understanding
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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.
Thoughts and Thinking
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Present
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Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
Thoughts and Thinking
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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.
Friends and Friendship
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The first step is the hardest.
Inertia
Marie De Vichy-Chamrond

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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Human Nature
Giambattista Vico

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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Prosperity
Horace Walpole

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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
Competition
Bill Walsh

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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Story and Story-Telling
Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
Obedience
William A. Ward

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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Purity
Charles Dudley Warner

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To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
Questions
S. Tobin Webster

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