Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1586.
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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.
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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.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The first duty of love is to listen.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
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