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In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by… — Matsuo Basho
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. — Lady Bird Johnson
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. — Dean Acheson
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. — John Perry Barlow
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in -… — Mark Twain
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them. — Tony Benn
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. — Newt Gingrich
This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security… — Jody Williams
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — William Gibson
When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says… — Woody Harrelson
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? — Katharine Whitehorn
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. — Christopher Hitchens
The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry… — Robert Green Ingersoll
What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first… — E E Cummings
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment.… — Alan Sokal
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for… — Winston Churchill
A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

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