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• The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt… — Isoroku Yamamoto
• If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it… — James Alexander Thom
• If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one… — Garry Kasparov
• Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack… — Alcibiades
• He who would be free must strike the first blow. — Frederick Douglass
• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit… — Ada Louise Huxtable
• . . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot… — Unknown Author
• The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings
• The first blow is half the battle. — Oliver Goldsmith
• Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a… — Leon Croizat
• There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx

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