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“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

“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

“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.”

Ifs Men Firsts Humans Opinion Five Genius Conversation Hundred First Time Window League Naples

Author:Madame de Stael

“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”

“The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.”

World Years Firsts War Reason Truth Fiction Truth Is Hundred First Time Stranger War Of The Worlds Peculiar World War Ii World War I Unreasonable Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.”

Firsts Character Shows Dark Audience Percent Hundred First Time Spots Fifty Introducing Sixty Lit

Author:Peter Stormare

“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.”

Ifs Want Firsts Littles Growth Failing Succeed Hundred First Time Weight Lifts Pounds Lighters

Author:Norman Doidge

“The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.”

“There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.”

Firsts Thousand Hundred First Time

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Firsts Ends Suffering Fall Evil Silence Heard Crime Cry Horror Thousand Summer Hundred First Time Rain Spread Invisible Tyranny Tyrants Blanket Unendurable Butchery

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

Knows Firsts Death Dies Relationship Special One Day Six Hundred First Time Fishes Forty Special You Special Someone

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Book Law Written Seeing Danger Safe Hundred First Time Nine Ninety Ninety Nine Book Of Life

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.”

Years Firsts Left Sun Hundred First Time Locked Adolescence Closets Venus Left Out

Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“or the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word never. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred times a day but you don't really know what you're saying until you're faced with a real "never again."”

Knows Firsts Real Understood Hundred First Time Awful

Author:Muriel Barbery

“The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.”

People Firsts Two Funny Church Changed Hundred First Time Clever Choir Clever And Witty Church Choir Choir Singing

Author:Fred Allen