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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

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If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

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Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. ↗

— Tyra Banks

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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. ↗

— Thucydides

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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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First we have to believe, and then we believe. ↗

— Martha Graham

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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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