- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
- Fair
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first few years, it was at least plausible to come in in the morning and read all the Usenet traffic that had come in, and 15 minutes later be off doing something useful.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Why call out the champion in my first title defense? Because that's who Henry Cejudo is.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020