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Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dea? but first get permit. Robert A. Heinlein
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wineand the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour outto offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are... Euripides
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes. Diana Wynne Jones
Virgil quote: "Optima dies...prima fugit (The best days are the first to flee)"
Optima dies...prima fugit (The best days are the first to flee) Virgil
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. Friedrich Nietzsche
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. J. D. Salinger
Ernest Hemingway quote: "In order to write about life first you must live it."
In order to write about life first you must live it. Ernest Hemingway
Ayn Rand quote: "To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I"."
To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I". Ayn Rand
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C. S. Lewis
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place. Douglas Adams
Georgia O'Keeffe quote: "My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light --..."
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. Georgia O'Keeffe
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the..."
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. William F. Buckley, Jr.
if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. Johnny Depp
Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea. Sri Chinmoy
There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself. Dian Fossey

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