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But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. Cheryl Strayed
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion. Idries Shah
Ken Jennings quote: "Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately..."
Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. Ken Jennings
Oscar Wilde quote: "A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. Oscar Wilde
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour. And as goods lost are seld or never found, As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh, As flowers dead lie withered on the ground, As broken glass no cement can redress; So beauty blemished once, for ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost. William Shakespeare
Pablo Neruda quote: "The birds of night peck at the first starsthat flash like my..."
The birds of night peck at the first starsthat flash like my soul when I love you. Pablo Neruda
You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it’s called bad luck.. Lou Reed
Oscar Wilde quote: "A man wants to be a woman's first love, a woman wants to be..."
A man wants to be a woman's first love, a woman wants to be his last. Oscar Wilde
As against solipsism it is to be said, in the first place, that it is psychologically impossible to believe, and is rejected in fact even by those who mean to accept it. I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me. Bertrand Russell
It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual. Jacques Barzun
The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity and compassion, based upon the old familiar fact, lately rediscovered by modern psychiatry - the fact that, whatever their mental and physical diversity, love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; and finally the values of intelligence, without which love is impotent and freedom unattainable. Aldous Huxley
These were the first moments of a new existence, a strange one in which she already glimpsed the element of timelessness that would surround her. The person who frantically has been counting the seconds on his way to catch a train, and arrives panting just as it disappears, knowing the next one is not due for many hours, feels something of the same sudden surfeit of time, the momentary sensation of drowning in an element become too rich and too plentiful to be consumed, and thereby made... Paul Bowles
The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet. P. G. Wodehouse
George R. R. Martin quote: "All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live. -Ygritte"
All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live. -Ygritte George R. R. Martin
Once when I was a little child of six or so, I watched a spider spinning its web in a corner of the house. Before the spider had even finished its job, a mosquito flew right into the web and was trapped there. The spider didn't pay it any attention at first, but went on with what it was doing; only when it was finished did it creep over on its pointy toes and sting that poor mosquito to death. As I sat there on that wooden floor and watched Hatsumomo come reaching for me with her delicate... Arthur Golden

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