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"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."
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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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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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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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"We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi."
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
Being

"Business is more exciting than any game."
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
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"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."
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"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."
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"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."
Life

"Debate is the death of conversation."
Death

"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."
Life

"What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise."
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