Quotes with first-born

Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 1905.

  • Wilson Mizner To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Aleister Crowley To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Ayn Rand To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.".
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • George Earle Buckle To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Bob Rae To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • C. L. R. James Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Bianca Kajlich Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Albert Camus Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Billy Sunday Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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