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Let him who would move the world first move himself.


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SOCRATES Let he who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
THOMAS CARLYLE You have to move on. You cannot let yourself get paralyzed by an event.
MARGARET KENSKI If we are to abolish the death penalty, let our friends the murderers make the first move.
ALPHONSE KARR Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.
PAUL WANER Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN He knew that we would have got £100,000 more for him from Sheffield Wednesday so decided to let Kil...
JIM JEFFERIES Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON He couldn't move. Running would get him killed. Fighting would get him killed. …Standing where he ...
RUTH FORD ELWARD This would have been a good move for us. Our first home of our own.
MARCIEAU MATTHEWS The problem is that those who are the worst off are the first to move. You would need the strong to ...
DENNIS MCNAMARA The best way to move on and move forward is to let go of the past. By past I mean everything hurtful...
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JIM BOWDEN Stats are overrated. I want to see who can get first downs and move the team.
RICH BROOKS I didn't think it was fair that we should be penalized and not allowed to let the project move forwa...
KIM BROWN One of the biggest decisions this organization will make is whether B.J. Upton is going to be the ev...
CHUCK LAMAR A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of wo...
DOROTHY FIELDS I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the...
RACHEL MCADAMS You demand excellence and excellence demands your every move better
MYRA YADAV, MOVE ON Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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MAGNUS SCHEVING You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before t...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Dr. Ruby himself came by during move in and he loves the hall.
MIKE WHITE Let nothing of this universal move the character you uphold
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is g...
RALPH MARSTON Nothing happens unless you first move.
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO I look forward to the day that I can feel nothing but indifference for you. Just like you were able ...
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ALBERT ESPINOSA You don't have to move on to let go.
ANGEL ORTIZ The shot went through the driver's windshield. If the deputy didn't move, it would have hit him in t...
TERI BARBERA Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Move with the move, move the move, be the move and look back only if it moves you to move. ~Lana Rad...
LANA RADOVIC When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN To move forward, one must take the first step
CHASE S.M. NEILL Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
JESUS CHRIST Who knew that life would move this fast, who knew i'd have to look at you though a glass.
KANYE WEST Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.
UNKNOWN Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
RICHARD M. NIXON To move forward, one need only take the first step,
CHASE NEILL He's got belief in himself and we've got belief in him, so we move forward and he's playing and he's...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON All is as it should be. Learn, let go, move on.
HOWARD MANN Anything but a quarter percentage point move will get a reaction. A 50 basis point move would see a ...
ART HOGAN A good reader has the power to move the world.
AMAN JASSAL A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
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RONALD REAGAN Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person ...
THOMAS CARLYLE We played very well in the first half, but played like we wanted to move on to the finals in the thi...
JAY OSBORNE If the world doesn't understand you, fart and move on.
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI To move forward, you must first take a step
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UNKNOWN Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them mov...
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ABERRA DERESSA Your past and your pain will certainly impact you,
but they don’t have to define you. You get...
SCOTT STABILE Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a poi...
WILFRED JAMES DOLOR So we decided we would move to the country.
CHRISTINE MCKEON A time comes when you have to let go and move on
SOTONYE ANGA We care about this process. We can't let this amendment move forward.
MARC SOLOMON Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown be...
YANN MARTEL It's just too bad, but it's done. What's done is done and let's move on.
MIKE MARTZ He's done, so we have to move on.
JOHN WOODRING Let thy spirit move upon him to bring to pass those measures which will lift the burdens of governme...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY He's a very technical wrestler. He knows where he is on the mat at all times. He goes from move, to ...
AL GACCIONE It would have been our first choice. Can't say at the moment he'd be interested because he's emotion...
CHARLES CUNNIFFE -who does not move with time, like suspended freak with no past or future; let us fade like mortals,...
YAMIN RASHEED People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
EMMA DONOGHUE Move, move.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's...
MATTHEW DESMOND If someone doesn't appreciate you – forget them, move on. There's too many people in the world who...
NATALIE C. HILL These would be new residents. They'd move here.
LARRY LANGFORD The last six weeks have gone to Bush. He's been able to move himself to the middle --and get himself...
BRUCE CAIN But to move the whole monument, it would have crumbled.
MARY ANDREWS It would be the best move for Steph and Larry,
RAY RICHARDSON I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
LAURA HILLENBRAND The site is an embarrassment, first and foremost, to all of us that felt confident it would move for...
KATHRYN WYLDE We have so many guys who can make plays. We worked on getting a hard outside move because they like ...
BRAYLON EDWARDS The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their l...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
ROSA LUXEMBURG Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
STEVE MARABOLI He can play first, and maybe a little outfield. But he's really a third baseman. I don't think you w...
DAYTON MOORE His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the r...
SHIV KHERA It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f...
ELIZABETH HOYT Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, ...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second...
ERNST ZUNDEL I am delighted to see him back again. He's a creative player who will help the club move forward ove...
BRIAN ASHTON We're not going to move him up to the front of the line.
DEBBIE CARTER There are considerable First Amendment issues involved in such a move.
ANN BEESON Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
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VINOBA BHAVE He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cann...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cann...
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