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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and… — Elie Wiesel
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of… — Pierre Omidyar
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That… — Edith Wharton
I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me! — Tupac Shakur
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse
It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks. — Chris Frantz
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket… — Karl Kraus
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) — Bill Gates
Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired.… — Jerry Pournelle
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes... — Phil Dusenberry
The first duty of society is justice. — Alexander Hamilton
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first. — Kelly Cutrone
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my… — J. R. Martinez
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast… — Ernst Zundel
You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn. — Duane G. Carey
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking… — Kurt Lewin
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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