“Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.” FirstsMayBookSelfReasonBodyDesireConflictAngryAttractionDescriptionRepublicPassagesPlatoFoundingOverwhelmedUnworthyAcknowledgmentPlato S Book:Regarding the Pain of Others Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.” PeopleMindFirstsArtRealBodySpiritIndividualFeltVoiceTeachSuccessfulMovementPoetBirthUltimateImportanceAddUniversityFulfillmentSubtlePoetry IsLastingWorks Of ArtRepublicWorthwhileScholarLockedSensibilityPrimalUnnoticedFirst Things First Author:Guy Davenport
“Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.” FirstsStepsTrainingSpeedRepublicFirst StepsEquipmentAthleticProtocol Author:Darren McFadden
“I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.” PeopleFirstsSchoolPurposeNextConditionsFoundationDemocraticMissionsHospitalsRepublicContinentsImprovingCongoAfrican ContinentDemocratic RepublicLiving Conditions Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.” ThinkingFirstsForgetDemocracyPropagandaRepublicSlogansWilson Author:Robert W. Welch, Jr.
“Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.” ThinkingFirstsFactsInterestPartyPoliticianIraqIslamicActivistRepublicSaddamBetter OffHusseinFlawedDeanPuzzled Author:Robert Novak
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.” FirstsSelfHelpingShowsHandsAbleRightsGenerationsShareSelf HelpWillingReadyCitizensCapacityWeightRegardMereRepublicPassengersGood CitizenSturdy Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.” PeopleFirstsWarReasonGovernmentAmericaRememberMillionsWrittenCenturyKeysChinaFormerFeaturesRepublicIdols20th CenturySlaughterLeftistsWantonUssr Author:Walter E. Williams