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Firsts Quotes - Page 192

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.11, Xist Publishing

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Irving Layton (1989). “Selected Poems, 1945-89: A Wild Peculiar Joy”

Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

Immanuel Kant (2015). “THE THREE CRITIQUES: The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & The Critique of Judgment: The Base Plan for Transcendental Philosophy, The Theory of Moral Reasoning and The Critiques of Aesthetic and Teleological Judgment”, p.936, e-artnow

The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.

"The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.155, Univ. Press of Mississippi

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.35, Conari Press

Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!

"'Grey's Anatomy's' Hilarie Burton on Lauren and Arizona's Growing Flirtation". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 8, 2013.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

Herman Melville (1847). “Omoo, a narrative of adventures in the south seas”, p.77

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

"Herman Cain: 'Replace the Tax Code'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2011.