Quotes with first-born

Quotes 661 till 680 of 1905.

  • G. C. Lichtenberg If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bhagavad Gita If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.
    Source: Bhagavadgita Ch. 2, v. 19
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Niels Bohr If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Marcelene Cox If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Laurence J. Peter If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Kirk Kirkpatrick If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
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  • Harry F. Banks If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
    Harry F. Banks
    American producer (1896 - 1915)
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  • Harry Weinberger If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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  • Archer J. P. Martin If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Affleck If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • William Shakespeare If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Blaise Pascal If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
    Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Baruch Spinoza If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
    Source: Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Camille Paglia If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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