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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Accuracy
Tryon Edwards

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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Science and Scientists
Paul Ehrlich

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Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
Dictators and Dictatorship
Milton S. Eisenhower

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Genius
George Eliot

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Speakers and Speaking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every artist was first an amateur.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-trust is the first secret to success.
Self-trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Farming and Farmers
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
Leaders and Leadership
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first wealth is health.
Wealth
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Travel and Tourism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
Appearance
English Proverb

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He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
Mothers
English Proverb

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The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
Fallibility
English Proverb

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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Speakers and Speaking
Epictetus

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Affirmation
Epictetus

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

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The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
Rules
Paul Erlich

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Love
Marie E. Eschenbach

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We always come back to our first love.
Love
Etienne

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Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Dress
Euripides

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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Henry Fielding

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Love
Zelda Fitzgerald

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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Sports
Peggy Fleming

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun