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“I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars. For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe. I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.”

“For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.”

Firsts Humans May Whole Gone First Time Species Human Species

Book:To Jerusalem and Back

Source: To Jerusalem and Back

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.”

Firsts Ends Three Levels Week Acceptance First Time Following Locals Granted Application Filling Membership Initiate Snacks Initiation Freeman Lodges

Author:Adam Rex

“The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.”

World Years Firsts States Political Three Economy Becoming Hundred Concepts First Time Sovereign Sovereignty Divorced Political Systems

Author:Peter Drucker

“I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am.”

Men Firsts America Young One Day First Time Investment Young Man Cathedrals Retail

Author:Diego Della Valle

“For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.”

Firsts Book Feelings Bits First Time Thoughts And Feelings

Book:Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath

Source: Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath

“A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.”

Firsts May Said Feet Land First Time Englishmen

Author:Vilhjalmur Stefansson

“Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.”

Firsts Wells Lasts Loses First Time Miserable Orpheus

Author:Cyril Connolly

“The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.”

Trying Firsts Play Character Remember Realizing Roles Ego First Time Who I Am Climbs Texas Flattering Mixing Reacting Motels

Author:Paul Newman

“We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.”

Years Firsts Humans Moments Body Human Beings Technology Thousand Hundred First Time Evolve Thousand Years Inseparable

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT? Isn’t that the way any master plan should work? Doesn’t the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?”

Way Should Firsts Plans Masters Demand Deserve First Time Reactions Elders Despotism Protocol Zion

Book:Satan Speaks!

Source: Satan Speaks!

“By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.”

Years Firsts Made Would Be Felt Style Design Building First Time Decades Architecture Accepted Orthodoxy Revolt Stirring Postmodernism Motifs

Author:Martin Filler

“As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.”

Firsts Kids Parent First Time Therapists And Off

Author:Pete Wentz

“When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.”

Want Firsts Littles Made Guy Bits Heard Little Bit Picks First Time Okay Instruments Green

Author:Pete Wentz

“It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.”

Firsts Feelings Hands Girl Women Destiny Influence Strange First Time Misery Fairy Magician Wands Potency

Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”

Source: The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature

“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”

Years Firsts Persons Religion Found Lost Hell Atheism One Day Prove First Time Strikes Flesh Satan Paradise Secular Forbidden Sandwiches Ham Swine Thunderbolts

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company.”

Men Firsts Real Next Jesus Cities Company First Time Brotherhood City Of God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them you're more than just that one song on the radio that's just playing. And that's what I had to do the first time around; I had to keep going out there and keep performing live.”

Feels Firsts Song Like You Prove First Time Radio Performing Keep Going Going Out Proving Yourself Performing Live

Author:Bruno Mars

“Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.”

Firsts Jokes First Time My Favorite

Author:Demetri Martin

“Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.”

Firsts Wanted First Time Being The Best Touched Pens

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.”

Want Trying Firsts Records First Time Being The Best Getting Started

Author:Freddie Hubbard

“It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for us to tap into, if we can discover what we love. If you feel energy and excitement and a sense that life is happening for the first time, you are probably near your God-given nature. Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Life Is Joy Energy Given Waiting Alive Elements Happenings First Time Features Excitement Occupation Vitality Imperatives

Author:Mark Nepo

“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.”

Firsts Mean Remember Memories Seeing First Time

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants -- not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.”

Men Firsts Women He Man Higher First Time Tests Scientist Breasts Smarter Implants Breast Implants

Author:Jay Leno

“For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness. Instead of clinging to Yahweh, to a rigid set of laws established by a jealous Father-God who will rant in fury if he is disobeyed, they are simply ignoring that ranting, walking away from it, and attempting to put their trust in the irrational. In other words, they are trying to live by the spirit.”

Source: Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study

“It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.”

“I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.”

Should Firsts Home Percent First Time Asking Congress Remove Zero Initiative Payment Mortgage Buyers

Author:George W. Bush

“It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?”

Knows Firsts Dark Middle Findings First Time Albums Performing Tribes Jungle Costa Rica

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young girl or woman somewhere may one night turn on the television and for the first time ever see her life represented - not as an isolated incident but as a multiplicity. Her overwhelming fear may have been that she might never find her tribe, she might never find love and now she knows that they are both out there waiting for her.”

“I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?”

People Firsts Different Hard States Lasts Faces Courses Next White Happened New York First Time England Mad Clinton Drunk Next Time Last Words Unreal Blair Euphoria Good Words New Faces

Author:Doris Lessing

“America is a country no one should go to for the first time.”

Should Firsts Country America First Time

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads," and the "Bhagavad Gita."”

Thinking World Firsts Book First Time Ritual Other Worlds Great Book Gita Estimation Hindu Religion

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.”

People Thinking Firsts Use Causes Voice Forget Animal Issues First Time Abuse Determined Animal Abuse

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people. This is a remarkable development by any standards and it deserves some analysis ... the 1983 Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridge-head in public understanding and support can be made.”

“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.”

“Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time - and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart.”

People Firsts Today Born Party Principles Millions Week Offers Smart First Time Surprise Doing Nothing Surprise Party

Author:Gracie Allen

“The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”

“It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.”

Men World Firsts War Force Effort Saws First Time War Of The Worlds Second World War Forces Of Nature

Author:Vannevar Bush

“Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same.”

Trying Firsts Seems Danger Drug Safe Normal First Time Boring Driving Rest Of Your Life Prudent Speeding

Author:Tim Allen

“The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Different Feelings Action Order Black White Knowing Events Mass First Time Population Defense Different Ways Transformed Stubborn Segregation Risen

Author:Howard Zinn

“It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.”

Knows Firsts Littles Feelings Body Care Life Is Taken Growing First Time Instinct Bones Your Body Life Changing Realising Protective Ultrasounds

Author:Halle Berry

“In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.”

Firsts Humans Quality First Time Species Heritage Odds Human History Compatible

Author:Warren Farrell

“For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.”

Firsts Humans Psychology Survival First Time Species Intimacy Human History Prerequisites

Author:Warren Farrell

“Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.”

Men Firsts Asks Pay Roles First Time Asking Males Ask Me Rejection Extras Assertion Jeopardy

Author:Warren Farrell

“This is the first time in history that we've had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.”

Way Firsts Opportunity Levels Approach First Time Luxury New Opportunity

Author:Warren Farrell

“Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.”

Firsts States Form First Time Essence Relation Originals Display Festive

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art

“Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”

Feels Firsts Country Proud Adults First Time Let Me Comeback Proud To Be An American

Author:Michelle Obama

“The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.”

Giving Firsts Looks Kind Eye Heard First Time Meetings Fearful Arrivals Avid New Arrivals

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

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