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The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
I believe in intuition and inspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited,
whereas imagination embraces the entire world,
stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
- Albert Einstein
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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