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"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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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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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
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"The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location."
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"When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down."
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."
People
"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."
Action
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
Education
"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."
Anger
"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."
Enthusiasm
"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
Death
"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
Belief
"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."
Death
"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
Death
"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
Work
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