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By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As… — John Bagot Glubb
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is… — George McGovern
The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty. — James Wolfensohn
He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable or unfavorable Balance… — Ernst Engel
In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in. — Joyce Van Patten
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ… — Unknown Author
One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won… — Unknown Author
In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense,… — Unknown Author
My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade… — Matt Prokop
The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time. — George Jean Nathan
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a… — Unknown Author
My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that. — Tom Bergeron
At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date. — Edith Massey
Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black... — Danielle O'Hara
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow… — William V. Shannon
I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong… — Cary Grant
When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It… — Cilla Black
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Unknown Author

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