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Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1569.

  • George Bernard Shaw The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Henderson The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Sir William Osler The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • André Malraux The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Virginia Woolf The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Abbie Hoffman The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • James A. Froude The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Paul Tillich The first duty of love is to listen.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alexis Carrel The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Donna Tartt The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Charles Buxton The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Isadora Duncan The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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