Quotes with first-person

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  • Box Brown Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Henry Rollins Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Anna Held How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Barry Schwartz How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Robert Burns How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Simone Weil Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Virginia Woolf Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Murray I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
    I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Earl Warren I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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