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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance. Robert Collier

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity. Robert Rauschenberg

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego. Roseanne Barr

Mom Beer You Ego First Macho Favorite Guy Pick Stuff Like Him Gotta His Male Up Commercials Get Did Personal Crap Then Doughnut Rid Lump

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied? Susan B. Anthony

Vote Natural First Paragraph Given How Governed Ballot Denied Very Declaration Natural Right Assertion Right Here Consent

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing. Thich Nhat Hanh

Healing Mind First Transformation Changing Kind Insight Spirit Crucial Outside First Of All Just Being Transcends Us View Notions Including Creator Creature Right Things Need

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. Thomas More

God Faith King First Faithful Die Servant

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership? W. E. B. Du Bois

Work Leadership Survival Natural People First Sole Has-Been Retarded Mass Obstacles Educated Were Been Led Very Intelligent Efforts Unfit Race Race Prejudice Prejudice Internal Elevated Slavery

The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place. W. Edwards Deming

People Problems First Big First Place Big Problems Where Realise Place

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson

Life Love God Daily Spiritual Prayer Business Witness First National Our Everything Worship Neighbor Spiritual Life Fact No-One Empty Empty Stomach Lord His National Life Stomach Bread Including Petition Daily Bread

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. Queen Elizabeth II

Smile Kindness Myself Good Commitment Human Being Inspire First Lost Energy Pay Others Respected Laugh Gifted Tribute Bad Admired Exceptional Good Times Never She Devotion Boy Diana Nor Times Human Being Want Capacity Warmth Pay Tribute Her Two

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say? Xi Jinping

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. Henry David Thoreau

First Indifference Sin After Blush

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Love True Love First Believe Attack True Until After

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. Adlai Stevenson I

Words Free Free Society First Society Open Principle Forum Flow

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. Akhenaton

Change Will Men First Action Thou See Rely Thy Thyself Know Unto Principles According Just Establish Which Thee Them Then Incapable Act Ever Right

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. Alan K. Simpson

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