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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. — Wally Amos
Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that… — Sam Keen
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all.… — Albert Einstein
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. — Joseph Brodsky
Be first the master of yourself — Baltasar Gracian
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves;… — Richard Sibbes
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter
In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly… — Richard Baxter
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they… — Richard Sibbes
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see… — John Bunyan
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,… — John Stuart Mill
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the… — Marcello Malpighi
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they… — Herbert Spencer
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger

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