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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered… — Ulrich Beck
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• I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. — Hippocrates
• The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be… — Sun Tzu
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• To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca
• The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube… — Josiah Stamp
• The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington
• Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington
• The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual… — Martin Heidegger
• If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first… — Thucydides
• The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke

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