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Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
Phaedrus
First
Seem
First Appearance
Always
Deceives
Many
Appearance
Things
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
Dreams
Time
Achievement
Soul
Vision
Bird
Angel
First
Sleeps
Oak
Dream
Highest
Greatest
Greatest Achievement
Waits
Waking
Egg
Acorn
Realities
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Sharon Draper
Happiness
Beautiful
Sunset
Happy
Joy
Little Things
Events
First
Giggle
Perfect
Make
Grand
Little
Moments
Things
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Government
People
First
Telephone
States
Harvard
Rather
Boston
Directory
Entrust
Faculty
Than
Listed
United
United States
University
Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
Walter Reisch
Tired
First
Minds
Later
Well
Plan
Sleep
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Man
Marriage
First
Tell
Married
About
Kissed
Throw
Up
Just
Children
Ever
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
Love
Time
You
Money
First
Marry
First Time
Companionship
Second
Third
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Politics
First
Bears
Come
Supposed
Very
Close
Realize
Resemblance
Profession
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
Rose Kennedy
Time
Day
Parenting
You
Responsibility
First
Year
Think
Baby
Tremendous
Everyone
Meets
Month
Say
Only
He
Arms
Him
First Time
Influence
Hold
Eternity
Your
Things
Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Love
Love Is
First
Our
Self-Love
Last
By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
Richard Branson
First
Putting
Employee
Well
Effectively
End
In The End
Customer
Default
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
First
Nothing
Unless
Dream
Happens
True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
Justin Timberlake
Love
True Love
Me
You
Wake Up
Thought
First
Before
Through
Head
True
She
Go
Wake
Up
Goes
Your
Last
Sleep
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree
You
Business
Reality
Responsibility
Leader
First
Thank You
Define
Say
Between
Thank
In-Between
Servant
Last
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
Love
Love Is
First
Only
Foolishness
First Love
Lot
Curiosity
Little
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness
Nature
Broken
Man
First
Shall
Between
Conditions
Link
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa
Love
Kindness
God
Peace
Money
Will
Rest
Insist
First
Understanding
Seek
Kingdom
Given
More
More And More
Come
Us
Let Us
Funds
Raising
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
John C. Maxwell
Me
Change
Try
Leader
First
Lead
First-Person
Person
Should
Need
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
Oksana Baiul
Life
God
Me
Thank God
Gift
Better
Giving
First
Second Chance
Better Life
He
Well
Thank
Did
Second
Chance
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.
Richard Branson
Day
Business
People
Worth
Better
Entrepreneur
First
Only
Pursuing
Mission
Make
Felt
Very
Lives
Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.
Buddy DeFranco
You
Yourself
People
Try
Perspective
Please Everyone
First
Own
Everybody
Everyone
Please
Those
Something
Feel
Know
Around
Doing
Hears
Listens
Then
Even
Differently
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
Life
Work
Mechanic
First
Depend
Tools
Diligence
Must
Would
Perfect
Sharpen
His
Expectations
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Jesus Christ
Work
Me
Man
Reward
First
Beginning
Every
Give
Shall
Come
Alpha
Am
His
According
End
Quickly
Behold
Every Man
Last
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
Government
Religion
Democracy
Rights
Natural
Equality
Pure
First
Human Rights
Christian
Cornerstone
Earth
Lawful
Generous
Least
Human
Mankind
Theory
Element
Foundation
Founded
Christian Religion
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
Time
Creative
Equality
Liberty
First
Differences
Fathers
Our
Despotism
Emancipation
Our Time
Rightly
Has-Been
Leads
Wrongly
Understood
Been
Tragically
Conformity
Then
Founding
Founding Fathers
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
People
Sometimes
Word
First
Before
Strangers
Once
Sight
Has-Been
Somehow
Perfect
Spoken
Been
Encounter
Begin
Interest
Us
Who
Even
Suddenly
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