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First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
Mitt Romney

America, Energy, Full

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Impossible, Noble

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
Ayrton Senna

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Else, Nation, Against

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

Truth, Path, Adversity

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Roseanne Barr

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
Ron Paul

Political, Revolution, Before

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness, Nature, Broken

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt Romney

Learning, Sports, Start

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Liberty, Conscience

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
Mitt Romney

Truth, Seems, Victim

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Heart, America, Whatever

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.
Sanjay Dutt

Real, Friendly, Person

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx

Strange, Obvious, Sight

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Experience, Two

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Person, Makes

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Greatest, Risk

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

Dreams, Impossible, Become

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone, True, Together

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman

Time, Sleep, Nothing

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk

Peace, Men, True

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx

Religion, Happiness, Abolition

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love, Smile, Mother

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

Selling, Buying, Controlled

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mother, Heart, Her

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

Human, Actually, Majority

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

Money, Wealth, Original

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage, Soldier, Endurance

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

Fool, Yourself, Person

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