"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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

"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever."

"The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set."

"When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man."

"The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself."

"There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation."

"All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it."

"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."

"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."

"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop."

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"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."

"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."