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You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush Limbaugh

Government, Why, Second

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

Pain, Heart, Start

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Woody Allen

Funny, Choice, Anyone

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Richard Dawkins

Time, Half, Ancestors

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Work, End, Become

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Time, Second

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law

Experience, Teacher, Hard

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke

Mind, Human, Emotion

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings

Step, Creation, Destroy

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal

Made, Study, Whole

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Women, Respect

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Why, Afraid

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere

Love, Money, Writing

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Give, Next

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus

Yourself, Adorn

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol

Caring, Television, Close

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

Die, Wish, Beginning

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas Aquinas

Love, God, Live

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats

Heart, Old, Away

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Time, History, Made

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville

Love, Friendship, Truth

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Time, Great, Nothing

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead

Time, Car, Thought

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle

Love, Patriotism, Hate

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James A. Baldwin

Time, Happen, Happening

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
Zac Efron

Love, Time, Fun

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

Woman, Young, Idiot

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead

Life, Time, Century

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson

Play, Makes, Choice

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
Milton Friedman

Society, Greed, Tell

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