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  • Mark Twain In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bryant Gumbel In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bobby Sherman In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Henry van Dyke In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Simon Hoggart In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
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  • Ferdinand Foch In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Khaled Hosseini It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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