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First Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for…
- At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity:…
- This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should…
- At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in…
- Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for…
- a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness.…
- And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong