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"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."

Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer

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"At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

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"If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all."

Archer J. P. Martin, American Chemist

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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."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."

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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."

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"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."

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"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."

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"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."

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"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."

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"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."

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"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."

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"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."

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