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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you. ↗

— Ice T

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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series. ↗

— Joe Torre

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So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books. ↗

— George Stephen

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I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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