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  • Carlos Slim First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Martin Luther First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
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  • Bill Simmons First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Epictetus First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Mayer First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • C. L. R. James First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Michael Caine First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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  • Angela Davis First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Beatrice Wood First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Bill Kurtis First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bill Condon First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Barry Levinson First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Carlos Santana First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
    Press Conference, September 1 1992 [6]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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