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“Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.”

Firsts Protection Luxury Opulence Secret Agent

Book:The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

“The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.”

Years Firsts Persons Spirituality Christ Golden First Person Golden Rule Bedrock

Author:Karen Armstrong

“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.”

People Thinking World Firsts Earth Existence Consciousness Design Habit Citizens Madness Rational Our Time Sanity Fulfilling Requirements World Citizen

Author:Norman Cousins

“I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.”

Mind Firsts Believe Self Spiritual Spirit I Believe Waiting Disease Resources Instance Offering Distress Consolation Quaker

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.”

Mind Firsts Weak Defence Weak Minds

Book:Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.”

Firsts Humans Character Results Opinion Records Currents Permanent Novelists Accurate Phases

Author:John Dos Passos

“Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.”

Firsts Important Economy Direct Financial Articles Creeds Minors Great Art Taxation Controversy Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:William E. Gladstone

“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.”

“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.”

Mind Firsts Kind Two Might Views Mathematical Firm Latter Flexibility Intuitive Finesse

Author:Blaise Pascal

“La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.”

Firsts Lasts Composing

Author:Blaise Pascal

“If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.”

Ifs Firsts Sleep Paid Cigar

Author:George Burns

“In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.”

Knows Firsts Light Beautiful Lying Perfect Morning Sun Woods Lovely Lakes Salt Noon Believable

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.”

Feels Firsts I Can Earth Death Growing Cold Quiet Graves Thank God Daisies

Author:John Keats

“There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.”

Men Firsts Kind Made Two Together Business Class He Man One Man Rolling First Class

Book:The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

“The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.”

Thinking World Want Firsts Stills Would Be Desire Next Steps This World Harder Practicals Next Steps

Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.”

Firsts Humans Remember Human Beings Numbers Doubt Periods Disappointment Lawyer Distress Cabbage

Book:Proceedings in honor of Mr. Justice Frankfurter and distinguished alumni at the meeting of the Council, Harvard Law School Association in Cambridge, April 30, 1960

Source: Proceedings in honor of Mr. Justice Frankfurter and distinguished alumni at the meeting of the Council, Harvard Law School Association in Cambridge, April 30, 1960

“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”

People Firsts Littles Remember Night Church Four Minutes Cold Ten Tiny Nervous Florida Sermons Cold Night

Author:Billy Graham

“As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.”

Firsts Felt Successful

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.”

Years Firsts Looks Happens Stars Couple Overwhelming Toms Movie Star Underwear Cruise

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.”

Firsts Book Ideas Plans Written Painting

Author:Ricky Gervais