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His wet white face and miserable eyes. Brought nurses to him more than groans and sighs: But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fell. His troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds) Siegfried Sassoon
Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after the sculptor Phidias. The architecture of you. Chuck Palahniuk
Vachel Lindsay quote: "They tried to get me—I got them first!"
They tried to get me—I got them first! Vachel Lindsay
Sparta must be regarded as the first vlkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject. Adolf Hitler
Paulo Coelho quote: "WE ONLY ACCEPT A TRUTH AFTER WE HAVE FIRST WHOLEHEARTEDLY..."
WE ONLY ACCEPT A TRUTH AFTER WE HAVE FIRST WHOLEHEARTEDLY REJECTED IT Paulo Coelho
Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible. H. L. Mencken
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble. Sam Keen
Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese. Walter Mosley
Then I rise disembodied from the dark to grasp and attach myself like a homeless parasite to the shape of my identity and its position in space and time. At first, I cannot find my way, I cannot find myself where I left myself, someone has removed all trace of me. Janet Frame
Of course, you’ll have to fly to the refugee camp at Dadaab,” Will observed thoughtfully at one point. He glanced at me. “To avoid the bandits,” he explained. Dan and Nick nodded gravely. “I beg your pardon?” I said, taking a sudden interest. “It’s bandit country all round there,” Will said. “Where?” I asked, peering at the map for the first time. “Oh, just there,” Will said, waving a hand vaguely across most of east Africa. “But you’ll be fine in a plane.” “They only rarely shoot at... Bill Bryson
For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery. Jean Rhys
The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle. Theodore White
If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie Landrith first in the expansion draft. Casey Stengel
But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history, and since sensation is a reconstitution, it pre-supposes in me sediments left behind by some previous constitution, so that I am, as a sentient subject, a repository stocked with natural powers at which I am the first to be filled with wonder. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Garry Kasparov quote: "If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be..."
If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it. Garry Kasparov

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