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The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

Family, Society, Human

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell

Yourself, Help, Trying

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
Ray Bradbury

Stories, Mars, Landing

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Happy, Person

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle

Fear, Cannot, Act

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden

Change, Acceptance, Step

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Power, Art, Learned

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine

Good, Evil, Beginning

Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom, Human, Find

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.
Julianne Hough

Love, Family, Best

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer

Human, Sense, Step

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Time, History, Made

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot

Work, Put, Last

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Time, Power, History

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.
Kobe Bryant

Before, After, Place

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
Hillary Clinton

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes

Christmas, Die, Knew

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell

Men, Sometimes, Duty

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

Love, Ignorance, End

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon

God, Wisdom, Learning

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

Themselves, Actually, Bully

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.
Ron White

Done, Jokes, Throw

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

Woman, Fire, Put

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
Jesus Christ

Among, Sin, Stone

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing, Possible, Overcome

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Rudyard Kipling

Art, Heart, Pretty

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali

Good, Power, Alone

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski

Lives, Ready, Taken

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Experience, Act, Anxiety

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