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“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?”

Ifs Firsts Jobs Kings Refuse Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.”

Firsts Hands Today Office England Occasions Ministers Queens Chairs Prime Royal Prime Minister Historic Majesty Commonwealth Julia Another Woman Queen Of England Highness

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'”

Firsts Kids Wanted Fiction All Time Ministers Prime Prime Minister Abel

Author:Louise Mensch

“I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.”

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

World Firsts Stills Past Dies Strong Fate Worst Victim Leaving Deeds Curse Hopeless Prime

Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

“The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?”

Thinking Firsts Causes Century Argument Moved Just One Prime Hume St Thomas

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.”

Firsts Age Crime Flower Pride Bed Equal Rose Passing Passings Mortals Prime Decay Leafs Bud Deck

Author:Edmund Spenser