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• We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Acting, Action, Born

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mom, Badass, Mean

  Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti.

  Justin Bieber

  Cocky, White, Dating

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• Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Being Single, Bad Relationship, Thinking

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• A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Giving, Police

  "The Threepenny Opera". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1928.

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• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Ideas, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1111, Manonmani Publishers

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• To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

  Chris Brogan

  Names, Marketing, Twenties

  Chris Brogan, Julien Smith (2010). “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust”, p.180, John Wiley & Sons

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• Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Talking

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• If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

  Laozi

  People, Perception, Overcoming

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• As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.

  Gary Zukav

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Experience Yourself

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

  William Ames

  Men, Grace, Soul

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Mistake, Thinking, Marketing

  Tim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein (2011). “The Twitter Book”, p.189, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Family, Home, Government

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• Being, not doing, is my first joy.

  Theodore Roethke

  Joy

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.316, Anchor

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.34, Image

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• Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want?

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Talking, Law

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• The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Law, Social

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• The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Real, Consciousness

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Be first the master of yourself

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Understanding, Masters

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• If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Spring, Humility

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• It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Common, Mathematics

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.142, Indiana University Press

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• The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands - a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Science, Men

  "The Scientific Outlook".

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• The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Confused, Real, Science

  John Stuart Mill (1856). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.16

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• The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Energy, Causes

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• [Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Plato, Real, Science

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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