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• Anxiety, n.: The first time you can't do it a second time.
  Panic, n.: The second time you can't do it the first time....
• Programmers do it right the first time!
• I can do a score of things that can't be done. I can find a thing I cannot see, and see a thing I cannot find.
  The first is time, and the second is spots before my eyes....
• The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it.
  The second time you look to see if the basement has termites....
• Second Law of Final Exams: In your toughest final -- for the first time all year -- the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you.
• In your toughest final-- for the first time all year-- the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you.
  -- Second Law of Final Exam...
• History repeats itself -- the first time as a tragi-comedy, the second time as bedroom farce.
• Never do anything for the first time. -- Paul Herbig