Beginning Quotes
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H. L. Mencken
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I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
Joel Edgerton
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Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
N. T. Wright
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
John Major
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Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love.
Katrina Mayer
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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Lao Tzu
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To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
John Heywood
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We just got whipped from the beginning of the game to the end. They did everything right and we did nothing right.
Allen Iverson
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I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'
Peter Marino
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The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.
M. Scott Peck
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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
H. G. Wells
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I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
Banana Yoshimoto
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The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.
Charles Handy
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Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.
Ajit Pai
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I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.
Claude Lelouch
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As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.
Neil MacGregor
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond Tutu
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.
Douglas Coupland
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Winning starts with beginning.
Robert H. Schuller
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.
Kelly Jones
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Young people encounter great challenges at the beginning of their careers.
Alain Dehaze