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		To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).
	
	  Yasmin Mogahed Yasmin Mogahed
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		Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
	
	  C. J. Anderson C. J. Anderson
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		I used to think fashion was something unattainable and reserved only for people who look like models. But looking back, I've always made bold choices, possibly beginning with the silk jungle print jacket, orange shorts, and Nepalese cap I insisted on wearing every day when I was ten.
	
	  Lisa Hanawalt Lisa Hanawalt
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		If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.
	
	  Alex Chiu Alex Chiu
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		I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.
	
	  Paddy Chayefsky Paddy Chayefsky
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		My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
	
	  Kevyn Aucoin Kevyn Aucoin
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		'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.
	
	  Mary Berry Mary Berry
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		The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
	
	  George Burns George Burns
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		At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
	
	  John Gould John Gould
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		I want to believe that bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but now I have doubts. If they were responsible, I am beginning to think it was not without some knowledge of those impending attacks on our side.
	
	  Jesse Ventura Jesse Ventura
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		There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
	
	  Lynda Barry Lynda Barry
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		At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.
	
	  Maurice Allais Maurice Allais
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		To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
	
	  Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell
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		Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.
	
	  David Hewson David Hewson
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		When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.
	
	  Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov
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		I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.
	
	  Andy Weir Andy Weir