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Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I… — Unknown Author
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform… — Alan Bullock
Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those… — Michel de Montaigne
Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But… — Annie Oakley
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his… — Eric Berne
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone… — Karl G. Maeser
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when… — Gaston Bachelard
If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into… — Thomas Jefferson
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version… — Unknown Author
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. — John Milton
They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right… — Unknown Author
It's going to be crazy. The fans in Venezuela are tough. They scream. We get to face the Dominicans in the first game - it's… — Unknown Author
That race was so hard and I am very happy with the result in the end. Michelin did a great job with the tyres ?… — Unknown Author
The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die… — Michel de Montaigne
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,… — William James
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however,… — Plutarch
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first… — Thomas Nagel
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place. — Andrew Carnegie
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. — Seneca the Younger
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. — Friedrich Engels
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. — Seneca the Younger
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. — Seneca the Younger

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