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“Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.”

“The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way it works, you are given a problem which has no rational solution. There is a contradiction built into it. One standard - one is this is the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And so on. All right, so the first thing is that it brings your rational mind to an impasse.”

Way Mind Firsts Mean Two Problem Hands Given Sound Special Solutions Standards Built Rational Contradiction Two Hands Clapping Impasse

Author:Huston Smith

“When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.”

“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Jesus Christ Sin Lord Jesus Christ Built Foundation Salvation Meaningful Repentance Sincere Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Easter

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.”

Firsts Humans Moments Body Form Mother Process Materials Built Tiny Passing Passings Decay Womb Human Body Passing Away Molecules Reconstruction Streaming

Book:Theosophical Review

Source: Theosophical Review

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”

Firsts Humanity Internet Built Criminals Experiments Programming Anarchy Criminal Mind Mind Opening World Wide Web Best Criminal Minds Used In Criminal Minds Internet Technology Internet Users

Author:Eric Schmidt

“The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.”

Firsts Four Feet Built Planes Buddy Aeroplanes Homemade Feet Off The Ground Plane Rides

Author:Alan Shepard

“The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.”

Firsts Company Built Making Money Mars Colony

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.”

People Firsts Bigs Courses Cities Civilization Taxes Built Mark Wine Track Empires Sheep Agriculture Mud Bricks Clay Hiring Wheat

Author:Howard Rheingold

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel

“When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.”

Years Firsts Kind Next Language Principles Building Built University California Grass Programming Trails Next Year Sidewalk Computer Language Perl

Author:Larry Wall

“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”

Ifs Men Firsts Whole Lasts Courses Animal Land Ignorance Fool Built Intelligent Plant Useless Wheels Mechanism Last Words Precaution Cogs Tinkering Land Conservation

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”

Knows Inspirational Firsts Soul Happens Sweet Ten Built Wisest Strengthening Amazement Attentiveness Ping Special Education

Author:Mary Oliver

“And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.”

World Firsts May Two Book House Individual Energy Lost Parent My Own Pieces Fate Dog Paper Built Stones Shoulders Boards Two Things Blank Foxes Steadfast True Life Old Dog Old Houses

Book:Upstream: Selected Essays

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

“You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.”

Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Said Jobs Feet Built Fifty Killers

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

“The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.” “Yeah,” I said. “And now they’re gone.”

Years Firsts Said States Nations Gone Fool Civilization Built Yeah Ancient Carter Pyramids Great Nations

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard”

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”

Ifs World Firsts Kind Pain Universe Evil Nature Moral Built Supreme Superiors Supreme Being Vetinari

Book:Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

“And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”

Firsts Lying Three Black Destiny Built Concern Concerned Thirds Profound Conviction Cousin

Book:Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress

Source: Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress

“This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.”

“Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.”

Firsts Love You Built Packs Mating

Book:Kiss of Snow

Source: Kiss of Snow

“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.”

Should Firsts Said Cities Mistake Blood Rocks Built Towns Bones Rock And Roll

Book:Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)

Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)

“A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.”

“Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.”

People World Mind Firsts Art Today Imagination Vision Creativity Theory Perception Built Structure Carpe Diem Rockets Geometry Pyramids Cathedrals Carpe Thermodynamics

Author:Eugene S. Ferguson

“But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Asks Found Names My Friends Built Addresses Owners Site Optimist Small Business Badass Website Amanda Firsts And Lasts

Author:Eva Longoria

“According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements.”

World Firsts Inspiration Culture Literature Teaching Century Months Holy Achievement Benefits Built Islam Believer Billions Prophet Muhammad God First Ramadan Prophet Muhammad

Author:George W. Bush

“Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Values Fall Grows White Family Trouble Built Roots Foundation Storm Forests Shallow Family Values

Author:Jean Charest

“The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.”

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