Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1725.

  • Sigmund Freud The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Georges Bataille The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Stephen King The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Macdonald The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Napoleon Hill The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • I. F. Stone The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • Donna Tartt The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Berenice Abbott The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
    Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Ba Jin The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • David Hume The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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