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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bill Ackman Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Daniel Defoe Pride the first peer and president of hell.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Beckett Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Prosperity and is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Napoleon Public instruction should be the first object of government.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • A. D. Hope Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
    Imperial Adam (l. 42-44)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • Angela Davis Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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  • Ralph Novak Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
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  • Barbara Corcoran Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Barton Seaver Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • John Milton Revenge, at first though sweet,
    Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 171
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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