#earliest

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There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.


Adam Clayton


#archaeology #collector #earliest #example #finding

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.


John Moody


#did #earliest #even #horses #locomotive

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.


Jean Giraudoux


#earliest #eat #garment #greet #invisible

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.


Steven Spielberg


#been #day #defender #develop #earliest

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.


William Graham Sumner


#common-sense #did #doctrines #earliest #economy

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.


Patrick Campbell


#days #earliest #enjoyed #i #impediment

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.


Lewis Thomas


#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.


Julian Schnabel


#been #earliest #early #even #francis

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.


Isaac Bashevis Singer


#also #always #been #continuing #done

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.


Jerry Zucker


#comedy #earliest #influence #mad #magazine