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"The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then."
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"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world."
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"All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero."
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"This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice."
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"In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head."
Life
"But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon."
Religion
"The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men."
Men
"But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents."
Government
"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished."
Nature
"It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination."
Nature
"The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members."
First
"Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery."
Men
"Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination."
Morality
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