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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
Naomi Wolf
Business
First
Allow
First Amendment
Subdued
Quiet
Amendment
Usual
Right
Designed
Disruption
When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.
Nicola Sturgeon
Education
Class
First
Benefit
First Class
Up
Lucky
Growing
Growing Up
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
Fire
Power
First
Flame
Speed
Increasing
Civilisation
Blaze
Feeble
Spread
May
Mighty
Spark
Then
Next
Flickering
Ever
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey
Time
Best
You
Better
First
Become
Able
About
More
Clear
Around
First Time
Decide
Really
Who
Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
Patch Adams
Love
Character
You
Love Yourself
Yourself
Humanity
People
First
Hug
Whatever
Clown
Assumes
Trick
Percent
Had
Contact
Still
Close
Get
Clowning
Your
Trauma
Second
In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.
Paul Allen
Time
World
First
Sick
Our
More
Adventurous
First Time
Always
Got
Were
Years
Going
Microsoft
Eight
After
Decided
Explore
Chained
There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.
Paul Erdos
Man
Signs
Three
First
Down
Sign
He
His
Up
Forgets
Senility
Theorems
Zip
Second
Third
When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
Raghav Bahl
You
Will
First
Few
Something
Something New
Disappointments
Failures
New
Sure
Years
Full
Start
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
First
Single
Doubt
Never
Knew
True
Until
Accept
Without
Precept
Thing
The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life.
Richard Linklater
Life
You
People
Rest
College
First
Live
Those
Still
Friends
Often
Roommates
Your
When employees are first eligible for a retirement savings plan, they should be enrolled unless they choose to opt out.
Richard Thaler
First
Employees
Savings
Unless
Enrolled
Out
Retirement
Plan
Should
Choose
Eligible
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
You
Yourself
Strong
Decision
First
Important
Important Things
Endeavor
Difficult
Allow
Part
Step
Taking
Powerful
Most
Learn
First Step
Making
Were
Did
Any
Things
Two
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ronnie Barker
Today
Time
News
Police
First
Looking
Minister
Chased
Through
Spokesman
Prime
Like
House
House Of Commons
Said
Yard
Question
Off
Scotland
Escaped
Front
Front Door
Door
After
Commons
Sealed
Lunatic
Needle
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
Hope
First
Diligence
Ease
Must
Learn
Ever
We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.
Simon Sinek
Best
Good
Strength
Together
Job
First
Every
Suited
Everything
Logic
Having
Partly
First Place
Covered
Role
Person
Behind
Place
Team
Each
Filled
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
Steven Van Zandt
You
First
Live
Rule
About
Records
Learn
Rock
Rock And Roll
Making
Go
Roll
Craft
Order
Which
Then
Should
Second
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
Steven Wright
Death
Words
Sometimes
Word
First
Wish
Could
Bed
End
Quote
Last
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
Stokely Carmichael
First
Before
Group
Society
Enter
Ranks
Must
Open
Open Society
Close
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
Day
Great
Courage
Every Day
World
Great Deal
Men
First
Lost
Every
Obscure
Talent
Deal
Making
Effort
Timidity
Sends
Want
Little
Them
Whose
Graves
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'
Sylvia Plath
Today
Rain
Remember
Pour
First
Nation
Rejection
Slip
Tempted
Poem
Poems
Write
Hot
Said
Am
August
Wet
Heavy
After
Across
Raining
My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
Sylvia Plath
Birthday
Me
Mother
Mind
Moon
Face
Daughter
First
Visit
Asylum
Had
Since
Obviously
She
Still
Forgive
Forgive Me
Done
Decided
Twentieth
Pale
Her
Last
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
First
Others
Ourselves
Know
Heal
Deal
How
Order
Need
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall
Alone
Man
Business
First
Films
State
Books
Telling
No Business
He
First Amendment
House
Read
His
Amendment
Sitting
May
Anything
Means
Watch
When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
Tom Hiddleston
People
First
Victim
Classic
Like
Make
Make Up
Bully
Up
Very
Themselves
Much
Actually
You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.
Tom Shales
You
Getting Older
First
Live
Older
Guest
Musical
Given
Only
Host
Never
Almost
Know
Also
Well
Read
Heard
Off
Begins
Any
Getting
Story
Either
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
Tony Evans
Government
You
Racism
Problem
Three
First
Skin
Believe
Hundred
Hundred Years
See
Federal
Federal Government
Take
Sin
Involvement
Court
Still
Years
Foremost
Fixed
Get
Decisions
Marches
Right
Slavery
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