Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 1586.
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Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
Source: Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717 -
Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?
Source: Hero and Leander -
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
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Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
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Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
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Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
Source: As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978) -
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
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Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
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