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  • Benny Green The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
    The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bill Kristol The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq has been won decisively and honorably.
    April 28, 2003
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first wealth is health.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carole Bouquet The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
    The First World War (1963) p. 20
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Carl Van Doren The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Bobby Scott The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Cosby The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • C. V. Raman The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • C. S. Lewis The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Goldberg The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first football game there as an Atlanta Falcon.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Al Gore The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Carl I. Hagen The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.
    About immigration, Islam etc. Interviewed in Aftenposten (13 November 2005)
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • John Locke The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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