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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Under current leadership, the Department of Education seems determined to deny student borrowers the financial relief to which they are entitled, the students we are trying to help have been doubly victimized — first by the for-profit colleges that deceived them, and now by the federal government that refuses to help.

It was his first and only daughter, he was robbed of fatherhood.

This is not the first administration to have enabled Saudi Arabia and given them wide berth, it's just that Bruce Riedel have a senior Saudi leadership that has been uncharacteristically risk-ready and frankly reckless.

We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class.

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech unsanctioned, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied - chains us all irrevocably.

The first word I said when he won was ‘ chaos, ’ i expected something to happen the next day.

For the first time I can say congratulations to the leader and congratulations to the Iraqi people, congratulations on winning first place in Baghdad, and God willing we will be the first in Iraq.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

It is the first time Iraq has achieved this.

On the first day, there were still Hezbollah flags there. Then somebody told them simply just to change to Syrian flags rather than withdrawing to trick everybody.

Knowledge is a three-level ladder. When people reach the first level, they feel arrogant; when they reach the second level, they become humble; when they reach the last level, they know that they know nothing.

First we targeted (the hotel) with a suicide car bomb and then armed mujahideen (guerrilla fighters) stormed the hotel. We are still fighting inside the hotel, there are many dead bodies inside the hotel, including a dead white man. We control the hotel now.

I am crying, but these are tears of joy, my kids aren't the first kids to die.

This is the first experience for Afghan forces to battle insurgents inside a major city, they might not have such training and that's why they were confused and did not know what to do.

The talks in Geneva will be indirect because the two sides do not recognize each other, if there will be chance to hold direct talks, that will depend on the first round.

I found him to be a quiet man. He kept mostly to himself, he was a great star. This was my first big thing: I felt lucky and grateful I was with these people.

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings… The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

Because of the ongoing pandemic... the entire Democratic infrastructure has their eyes on this, everyone in Texas Democratic Party recognizes this is the first run at this scale.

We see Brent staying under pressure until first quarter of next year, close to $44 in 2016 Q1 and then rising steadily to $54 in 2016 Q4, we expect WTI to trade at a discount of $4 - $5 to Brent in 2015.

This is an exponentially harder problem, our study is the first in the world, to my knowledge, to take someone paralyzed and give him the ability to both reach and grasp objects... so that he can regain the ability to perform functional activities of daily living.

When I was young, I liked Steve McQueen, Burt Lancaster and Clint Eastwood, i think the movie theater was the first place I enjoyed, and it was cheap for a kid ... Later on, when I would go to the movies the theaters began just giving Arabic movie posters to me.

As far as I know, this is a piece of history, it's the first time a major Japanese company has ever made such a gesture. We hope this will spur other companies to join in and do the same.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

This morning they found them in their apartment. First they shot them in the head and then they cut their heads off.

Truces are the first step to surrender and take place only in the interests of the regime.

Our first thought is that the site is a cathedral or a church from the Byzantine period, during that era, there was a great interest among the Byzantine rulers to build churches in the Gaza Strip.

Aviators are back, the need for speed. We’re going to have big, fast machines, it’s going to be a competition film, like the first one…but a progression for Maverick.

In the first instance, we will want to ensure that the nuclear agreement is a success, including by encouraging trade and investment once sanctions are lifted.

Our officers receive first aid training and with several years of experience, it looks like that training experience just kicked in and he's gone straight into action.

This will be a big deal because this will be the first such action that will be taken.

PO Cruises' culinary offerings on-board their new ship Britannia are particularly exciting, the line has enlisted the help of a number of celebrity chefs to create the first cookery school on-board a British ship.

If Jon Ossoff comes in first place in the ruby-red district of Georgia's sixth ... it will make clear that this is the first domino to fall, we have Tom Perriello running in Virginia in June in a very competitive primary, we have Rob Quist running in a competitive special election in Montana.

Reid put up with years and years of incredible amounts of obstruction, and pressure from his base, before he finally went nuclear, mcConnell, by sort of signaling he's going to do it beforehand -- literally the very first opportunity to go nuclear, he's pulling the trigger.

In most cases though, because their body has developed an immune response to the first infection, the second infection is usually less severe.

At first glance, it seems therefore that it is better. But it is not, this illegal trade is running as before, even faster, only ever more discreetly.

Some people are trying to score ideological points by discouraging the use of important equipment and tools that save lives and protect American first responders.

For them it's a very important revenue and income. It's an economic driver to have a World Heritage site, if the attributes that attract tourists there in the first place are damaged by climate change, that could be a big blow to the tourism economies.

Our preparations began right after the draw was made and we have analyzed both the strengths and weaknesses of the opponents, we have prepared in an optimal way for our first games. Apart from the injury to Kamil Glik, nothing has happened to damage the harmony of our preparations.

I do not have an exact date or timeline to share with you, but I wanted you to know first that this process has started.

Hop Tropic was the only beer that we were brewing for draft sales in the first two months of this pandemic, everything else was in [ cans and bottles ] because that was only the route to market for most craft breweries.

First of all, I dont know who the whistleblower is, i havent met them or communicated with him in any way. The conspiracy theory, which I think was outlined earlier, that the whistleblower colluded with the Intel Committee staff to hatch an impeachment inquiry is a complete and total fiction.

This was it. This was the first day of my enormous career, this was, Im so sorry, everyone Ive known before, I may or may not be able to return your calls. Im going to be incredibly busy and youre going to be nervous around me anyway.

The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...

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You'll be the first to know.

It was so devastating to see that our house was destroyed, we were all crying. Seeing this damage for the first time, it was like losing our will to live.

SOMO was the first on the case but they did not think it through nominations. SOMO went back to the drawing board. Aramco could not be left behind!

If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

The CGN decision demonstrates the European Commission's appetite to look at deals involving Chinese SOEs, this was the first time the European Commission had said yes, SASAC is effectively the parent company of a Chinese SOE in order to assert its jurisdiction to review the deal - previously the European Commission had left that question open.

When you have your first child.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

For the black community especially, this is a man who was an elder statesman who made the decision to be the number two to the first black man running for the office, speaking of privilege and ego, not a lot of people would do that.

I started very well, i'm in trouble the end of the first set but I also finished very well, so that's the most important thing.

This was the first time I see more gunmen than troops ... I later saw the militants pass by me shouting 'Allahu Akbar' and raising their weapons in victory.

I have been working in Sharm for three years but this is the first time I have ever seen it so empty.

I came here as a responsible person to make sure that everybody is safe and make sure there is no backlash, this is the first thing comes to my mind, they would be upset of what happened, and come to the building and do something wrong.

When we were mulling business ideas to be introduced in Iraq, mobile apps came first to our minds, given the wide access to internet and smartphones by Iraqis and the absence of such business.

First the surgeons have to have this discussion with the patient.

We need to receive intelligence first so we can track people. We have 7,000 people on a no-entry list and deported 2,000, including French and German citizens.

This was the first GBI salvo intercept of a complex, threat-representative ICBM target, and it was a critical milestone.

Every year, the first spell of rainfall throws normal life out of gear in Mumbai. An inquiry is needed into why this happens despite claims of preparations.

We are 5 aircraft down this summer. This is why we are screaming because it is making a huge impact on my bottom line, we are still at an impasse. We have walked away from our first A320neo because it is more than a certain number of days late, so exercised a walk away clause.

When we first began, we were at war and we sought to have that possibility for the day that the enemy might use a nuclear weapon. That was the thinking. But it never became real.

So the TEDDY study has discovered that the appearance of autoantibodies against insulin producing cells, appear during the first years of life, but the disease is not diagnosed until some ten years later So that's the discovery. We now know where to look for the trigger so we have to explain why this auto anti-bodies develop and now we know that we should look during the first years of life.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

My first thought was, it's going to be tough to get the parts.

For the first time since the war's end, there is a chance for the Japanese people to revise the constitution that was forced upon them by Occupation forces, frankly, I worry we will lose the ability to achieve this.

(Fans) were short-changed 10 minutes and they probably got a bit less mileage than usual out of the first 80, so I want to pay people back.

If I may put this in terms of mountain climbing, we've just passed the first station on a mountain of 10 stations.

I believe relations between Egypt and Hamas have taken a big move, for the first time we can say there is joint action between the two sides, a joint cooperation. That has never been official since the Hamas movement was founded 30 years ago.

When the NFL first started the international series there were a lot of questions around whether there would be demand for American football in Europe, in Asia, in Mexico and elsewhere, it was viewed as such a domestic sport but the NFL has done a phenomenal job of growing its fan base.

I feel guilty, first of all, the situation was difficult, more than you can imagine. How can your nephew be taken from your hand? How can you face your brother or your uncle? What would you tell them?

International growth – especially in Latin America – is a priority for many teams across the sport, and for me, personally, it means a great deal with my father, Ralph, having started the first baseball Academy in the Dominican Republic – Campos Las Palmas – and with his efforts starting the Dominican Summer League.

We are five aircraft down this summer. This is why we are screaming because it is making a huge impact on my bottom line, we are still at an impasse. We have walked away from our first A320neo because it is more than a certain number of days late, so exercised a walk-away clause.

I was there the night the committee in Judiciary voted the first bill of impeachment.

Al McGuire to Billy Packer . I saw the first sign of spring in Milwaukee the other day . Packer : What's that ? Al : The curb.

Were in the post-Obama generation. So, we have already seen a black president, weve already seen a black first family. Now, we want to know what it is going to mean. Symbolism is not enough now. Its substance ... And if there is no substance then weve gotten over the aura of the first.

At first we didn't believe it, we had pretty much assumed that Jakobshavn Isbrae would just keep going on as Jakobshavn Isbrae had over the last 20 years.

As soon as the two crossed, (Israeli forces) started screaming 'Go back, go back', and then they began shooting. The first one they shot was the girl ... the boy tried to go backward, when they fired seven bullets at him.

The SMS we sent to the first pregnant woman was special -- she said that when she read it she felt so much joy, and she was telling me' I feel now that somebody's got my back,'.

Some near-term caution toward stocks is warranted given the strong gains in the first half combined with a slowing global economy, renewed trade tensions and stalled corporate profits growth, moreover the lack of market participation outside of the large-cap S&P 500 highlights the challenge.

The first year was a year of sensory deprivation. I lost 70 pounds the first year not because I exercised so much but because the food was really bad, the food moved. There were critters in the food.

I don't expect to see the same exponential growth Slack initially had now that the market is more competitive than when they first launched, seeing a million new paid users added is a very positive result.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

This will be the first of only two annular eclipses visible from Singapore for the rest of the century. So in that sense, it's a very rare event for us.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

This is the first time the head of an ancient wolf has been found whose soft tissue has been preserved after 40,000 years, a grown wolf.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

First Lady Melania Trump must know what a maniac he is.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

It’s going to take time, probably in the first race a lot of cars will crash against each other.

There is uncertainty about what can happen and it has been important to have a prudent, cautious monetary stance that contributes, in the first place, to inflation returning to its three percent target - and it is doing that - and, secondly, that there is an orderly adjustment in the markets.

We are witnessing the most important elections in Colombia for many years, for the first time in history, there are candidates offering alternatives and that has generated a very tense environment, one polarized by two candidates.

For the first time, there will be order on the southern border that will allow us to have the identity and control of who is in the national territory.

We came to participate in the opening (of the bridge), to drive on it for the first time.