Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 1905.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910) -
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush: A Memoir -
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
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The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
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