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"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
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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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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."
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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
People
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
First
"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
Men
"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
Father
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
Effort
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
Creativity
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
Law
"The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command."
Leadership
"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
Responsibility
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