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Edward Filene, founded the first credit union in the U.S. · Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970 · C. S. Lewis, First things First · Frank Herbert, Dune (First Law of Mentat) · Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933 · George Orwell, "1984", first sentence · George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789 · H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line · Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speaker · John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t · John Lennon, When asked how the Beatles found America on their first U.S. visit · Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23 · Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line · Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774 · Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841 · Sir Winston Churchill, 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister. · Stephen R. Covey, First things First · Tallulah Bankhead, on seeing a former lover for the first time in years · Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

– Alfred E. Wiggam

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.

– Frank Vanderlip

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

– Burt Bacharach

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

– Denis Diderot

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

– Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

– Alexander Pope

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

– Chinese Proverb

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

– Dejan Stojanovic

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

– Hesiod

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

– Confucius

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.

– Anthon St Maarten

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

– Mark Twain

Every artist was first an amateur.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

– Mary McLeod Bethune

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

– Napoleon Hill

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

First the grub, then the morals.

– Bertolt Brecht

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

– Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

– Mark Twain

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

– Robert Herrick

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid

– Robert Browning

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

– Zelda

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)

– Richard Milhous Nixon

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