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First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon. — John F. Kennedy
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your… — Orison Swett Marden
For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me. — Oprah Winfrey
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of… — Virginia Woolf
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students… — Marva Collins
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the… — Bertrand Russell
What's happening is, there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system… — Ron Paul
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues.… — Phyllis McGinley
When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process.… — Frederick Buechner
The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to… — Sri Chinmoy
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with… — George Polya
There is a popular clichÃ© ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can… — Richard Dawkins
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since… — Bertrand Russell
To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one… — Meister Eckhart
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state… — Dan Millman
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his… — Robert A. Heinlein
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary McLeod Bethune
We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of… — John Naisbitt

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