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  • Burton Richter During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Mark Twain Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Anita Desai Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every artist was first an amateur.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Annie Dillard Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Bernard Lown Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses.
    A Prescription for Hope
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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Every noble work is at first impossible.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Auberon Herbert Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Ben Harper Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
    About interviews
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Bob Brown Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Bill Medley Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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