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“When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe”

Firsts Use Together Passion Common

Author:Richard Madeley

“This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.”

Source: Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Holiday Romance, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Christmas Stories, A Child’s Dream of a Star…

“As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.”

Firsts Soul Light Literature Common Creativity Mines Fine Genius Gold Thrown Metals Digging Rubbish Authorship Dullness Precious Metal

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.”

Firsts Freedom Common Gold Flying Eras Bicycle Crossings

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”

Firsts Courses Levels Common Quality Clear Truth Is Logic Practicals Common Sense Logical Severe Metaphysical Epithet

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.”

Firsts Enough Names Language Common Focus

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.”

Firsts Persons Has Beens Self Home Age Law Common Issues Expression Defense Nonviolence Self Defense Common Law Disenchantment

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.”

Firsts Views Common Cases Doubt Honest Duty Messages Ordinary Observation Dishonesty Deliberation Balaam

Book:The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

Source: The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.”

Firsts Grows Easy Interest Common Wife Husband Familiar Sufficient Ups & Downs Husband And Wife Leashes Wedlock

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.”

Firsts Reason Truth Speak Common

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)

“First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).”

Firsts Has Beens Facts Found Common Effort Pay Greater Logic Performances Investing Cancer Common Sense Cures Disagree Efficiency Analyzing Acumen Market Efficiency

Author:Paul Samuelson

“I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role of the federal government, i do hope that Common Core will be one more, one more reason for us to have this bigger debate, this bigger conversation about the proper role of the federal government in local education.”

People Thinking Firsts Reason Government Party Common Education Roles Republican Conversation Bigger Debate Core Locals Federal Government Republican Party Common Core

Author:Bobby Jindal

“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Moments Lasts Past Literature Common Teacher Our Lives Reader Husband My Husband Disagree Our Past Last Words Working Life Simpatico

Author:Dorianne Laux

“Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.”

Knows Firsts Common Taught Common Sense First Love Know It All

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.”

Firsts War Peace Common Common Sense Discussion Anti War Antiwar Casualties Cannabis

Author:James Reston, Jr.

“The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.”

World Firsts Body Earth Together Universe Stars Common Particular Roots Astronomy Globes Celestial Cosmology Celestial Bodies

Author:Francis Bacon