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  • Elbert Hubbard Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Mark Twain Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Tom Hopkins Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Boris Becker Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
    The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 10, p. 201 (A reference to Genesis 41:48–49,
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon God's first creature, which was light.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Horace Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Ronald Reagan Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ben Jonson Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Robert Browning Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Grub first, then ethics.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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