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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
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The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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