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• For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Moon, Years

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• You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if you're going to need government aid to take care of yourself ... It [2006 immigration bill] failed because it did not do what it said it would do... End the illegality first. Then we can wrestle with how to treat compassionately people who have been in America for a long time.

  Jeff Sessions

  Government, America, Long

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• The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

  John Steinbeck

  People, House, Hatred

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.350, Hamilton Books

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• We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, School, America

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Sleep, Long

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.140

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• When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Doctors, Patient

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• The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of sync with the whole purpose of the Lord's house. "The atmosphere of my Father's house," Jesus seemed to say, "is to be prayer. The aroma around my Father must be that of people opening their hearts in worship and supplication. This is not a place to make a buck. This is a house for calling on the Lord.

  Jim Cymbala

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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• For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

  Barack Obama

  Nuclear Terrorism, America, Nuclear Proliferation

  "AP Exclusive: Chile gives US weapons-grade uranium", www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2010.

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• War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Views, Vision

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• eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Technology, Ebay

  "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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• It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

  Chris Frantz

  Insomnia, Two, Week

  "Coming at rock from odd angles" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.

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• When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Sleep, Insomnia

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Microsoft, Arrogant, Messages

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• Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Wings

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

  Ernst Zundel

  War, Boys, Second Chance

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• You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.

  Duane G. Carey

  Second Chance, Separation, Scooters

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• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

  Barney Frank

  Equality Under The Law, Justice, Diversity

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• One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, People, Justice

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• What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

  Jules Michelet

  Justice, Diversity, Thirds

  Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.183, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley

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• The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.

  Tecumseh

  Men, Land, Justice

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• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Jean Toomer

  Ignorance, Knowing, Justice

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.

  Ernestine Rose

  Women, Lying, Ideas

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

  Bob Brown

  Country, Coffee, Drunk

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• Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

  Brett Favre

  Congratulations, Years, Storm

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