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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At… — Werner Heisenberg
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. — Horace
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out. — Joan Miro
My first thought is always of light. — Galen Rowell
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them. — D. H. Lawrence
A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if… — Oprah Winfrey
At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but… — Hilary Duff
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in… — Erma Bombeck
Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. — Thomas Carlyle
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a… — Linus Pauling
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural… — Charles Spurgeon
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the… — Mahatma Gandhi
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. — Bertrand Russell
Because your child is your first priority, your're more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to be really special.… — Helena Christensen
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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