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Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 1835.

  • C. S. Lewis You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ben Stein You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Al Stewart You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
    Source: Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist You want to represent Christ well with doing you job, first and foremost, because that's what you're there to do.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bill Budge You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bernadette Peters You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Gabriele Lusser Rico Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.
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  • Busy Philipps Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Richard Bach Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • John D. Mcdonald Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Bill Gates [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Before you can do something you must first be something.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Walt Whitman Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Pablo Picasso Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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