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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. ↗

— James Thurber

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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. ↗

— Patrick Campbell

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The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. ↗

— Quincy Jones

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The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

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