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If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem. — George Polya
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. — Denis Diderot
I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate… — John N. Bahcall
The first of earthly blessings, independence. — Edward Gibbon
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no… — Jane Austen
Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously — Sulak Sivaraksa
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. — Paul Wellstone
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. — Sun Tzu
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. — Philip Massinger
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote,… — Herman Melville
Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain… — Charles Spurgeon
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to… — Bill Bryson
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more? — Yuri Gagarin
When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase… — Yuri Gagarin
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy… — Paul Fussell
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. — George Bernard Shaw
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was… — Thomas Paine
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross… — Ralph Boston
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. — Mark Twain

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