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Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.
William A. Dembski
You
Natural
Will
Insects
First
Bacteria
Selection
First Place
How
Get
Gain
Place
Explain
Explains
Natural Selection
Certainly
Resistance
In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
William Billings
Great
You
Key
First
Pay
Must
Attention
First Place
Place
Note
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
William Godwin
First
Meditation
Considerable
Previous
Implies
Execution
First Place
Persevering
Any
Place
Thing
Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
William Least Heat-Moon
You
First
Those
Eat
Small
Come
First Place
Lot
Dominate
Same
Want
Place
Places
Communities
Chains
Eliminated
It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.
William Odom
First
Our
Enter
First Place
Iraq
Place
Interest
When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.
Wilson Greatbatch
Buy
You
Car
First
Energy
Pay
Out
Percent
Over
First Place
Goes
Heat
Form
Place
Gallon
Your
Waste
Why
Gas
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow Wilson
Property
Humanity
People
First
Must
Take
Red
First Place
Blood
American
Place
American People
Compared
Second
Second Place
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh
First
Out
Brought
Wiped
Had
First Place
Because
Trade
Lot
Up
Selling
Ivory
Than
Ended
African
Bigger
Place
Which
Now
Elephants
British
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked.
Yemi Osinbajo
Financial
Seen
First
Difficult
Ought
Back
Those
System
Financial System
Most
First Place
How
Were
Questions
Get
Stolen
Just
Banks
Place
Asked
International
Even
Assets
Routine
Received
Nigeria
Funds
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
People
First
Too
Enough
Could
First Place
Without
Been
Heard
American
Movement
Being
Place
Heeded
Far
American People
Swept
Fast
Alarm
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
Richard Dawkins
World
First
Ancestors
Bereft
Spiders
Would-Be
Never
Supplied
Well
First Place
Male
Mating
Died
After
Place
Whose
The thought about changing my genre of music does cross my mind, but then I remember why I started making music in the first place or why people started liking my kind of music.
Badshah
Music
People
Remember
Mind
Thought
First
Changing
Kind
I Remember
About
Cross
Liking
Genre
First Place
Does
Making
Place
Then
Why
Started
Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.
Marty Stuart
Me
Church
First
Kind
Invited
Performers
Like
House
Mississippi
Sing
Well
First Place
Well-Being
Denominator
Up
Common
Being
Common Denominator
Place
Public
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we need to pay attention to why that system is excluding people to create that maldistribution in the first place.
Ro Khanna
People
Wealth
First
Pay
Pay Attention
Thinking
Once
System
Thoughtful
About
Economic
Attention
Economic System
Excluding
First Place
How
Very
Place
Create
Creates
Why
Need
So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.
John Rzeznik
First
Never
Had
Empire
First Place
Loses
America
What If
Place
Should
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore
People
Speak
World
Language
First
Other
Percent
Lead
Come
First Place
How
Passport
Handful
Than
Did
Just
Place
Us
Should
Ignorant
Ignorant People
English
Even
The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon used to say something like, ‘We're just a singing group,' when he talked about the band. So that's what I say about Mr. Big - we're a singing group!
Paul Gilbert
Me
Beatles
Made
First
Singing
Big
Band
Group
Think
I Think
Say
Musician
John
Mr
About
John Lennon
Something
He
Like
Talked
First Place
Just
Want
Place
Lennon
Used
It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.
Michael Anthony
Music
Me
Have Fun
First
Something
Takes
Almost
Weird
Like
Make
First Place
Because
Place
Realize
Fun
Why
Playing
I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place.
Mickey Cohen
First
First Place
Anyone
Place
Deserve
If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.
Martin Cooper
You
People
First
Think
Out
First Place
Box
Want
Place
Create
I've been writing a lot more folky, country type stuff. One of the reasons I wanted to write in the first place was because of Darrell Scott.
Rag'n'Bone Man
Writing
First
Country
Type
More
Write
Stuff
First Place
Because
Been
Lot
Scott
Wanted
Place
Reasons
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