"Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Firsts Quotes #Put First Things First Quotes #Thrown Quotes

“It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.”

Source : "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.
“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.”
“Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far mar precious than exemption from the trial.”
“It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.”
“The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.”

Source : Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of the Sky: A Novel”, p.503, Simon and Schuster
“My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.”
“When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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