#irs

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#beginning #brings #confined #every #had

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#about #again #being #damn #damn fool

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#am #bound #cause #causes #dangerous

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly. ↗

— Steve Case

#believed #big #big thing #early #fervently

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#anyway #baby #because #distracted #even

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#articles #assembly #december #discussion #draft

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#come #conscious #decision #difficult #education

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#arriving #attendance #began #being #classes

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#earnest #ever #fell #first #i

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much. ↗

— Nick Ferguson

#drafted #due #expected #fact #first