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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

God, Human, Garden

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney

Giving, America, Place

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman

Great, Men, Victory

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Happen, Last, Knock

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Chuck Tanner

Patience, Important, Secret

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

Education, Mind, Worth

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Janis Joplin

Love, Time, Sex

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
John Henrik Clarke

Good, Teacher, Attention

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

Education, Government, Food

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

Beauty, Simple, Stand

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
Raymond Chandler

Love, Girl, After

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison

Friendship, Happiness, True

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr

Getting, Physics, Anybody

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Long, Made, While

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life, Nothing, Made

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

Great, Men, Courage

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
Joan Rivers

Time, Consider, Smiling

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Roger Ebert

Freedom, Understand, Speak

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

Justice, Put, Often

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Time, Again, Getting

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy

Love, Time, Money

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen King

God, Powerful, Awesome

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

Love, True, After

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar

Rather, Second, Rome

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin

Two, Goodness, Duty

To add value to others, one must first value others.
John C. Maxwell

Others, Value, Add

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

Respect, Law, Desire

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

Reality, Leader, Between

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.
John C. Maxwell

Time, Learned, Second

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