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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first. — Mark McGwire
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before. — Bonnie Blair
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of… — John Hughlings Jackson
The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer… — Richard Goldschmidt
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends,… — Ferenc Molnar
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water — John Stuart Blackie
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral… — Max Meyer
In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and… — Proclus
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for… — Francis Galton
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again… — William Beebe
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts… — Henry Mitchell
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. — George Whyte-Melville
I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that. — Kanye West
How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No… — Walter Russell
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress… — John Climacus
If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the… — Antony C. Sutton

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