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There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a… — Art Linkletter
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it… — Angela Carter
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers… — Theodore White
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. — Herbert Spencer
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but… — Nikola Tesla
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the… — Marlo Morgan
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it. — Seneca the Younger
In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the… — Morihei Ueshiba
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage. — Jim Bishop
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most… — James Madison
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of… — George W. Bush
The first of all qualities of a general is courage. — David McCullough
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved… — Thomas Sowell
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first… — Thomas Jefferson
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it… — Thomas Sowell

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