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Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but… — Justin Guarini
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we… — John Lewis
When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One — Shania Twain
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. — Sally Phillips
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body. — Yagyu Munenori
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every… — B. C. Forbes
I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist… — Unknown Author
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than… — Jimmy Carter
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. — Abraham Lincoln
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts… — Lou Holtz
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) — Sylvia Plath
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note) — Vachel Lindsay
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose… — Antonin Artaud
I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense… — Emma Stone
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes… — Sun Tzu
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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