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  • Bertrand Russell Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
    Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brian Austin Green James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Carter Burwell John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Samuel Beckett Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Benedict Wong Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Euripides Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Beth Behrs Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Epictetus Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • James Redfield Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
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  • Samuel Johnson Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
    Source: Works of Abraham Lincoln (2010 edition)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Akhenaton labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Adam Smith Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Alan Moore Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Aaron Allston Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • George Washington Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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