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  • American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
  • The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
  • When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
  • She entered his dreams sane and left mad. She began with words of love and ended with sounds that frightened him.
  • I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
  • I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
  • Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind: 
 He took her in his arms and there and then 
 Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind, 
 Began in joy to found the breed of men.
  • The trading characteristics of a security become more important than its underlying economics. The virtual economics began to drive the physical economy rather than the other way around.
  • When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
  • I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
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  • Horace Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Marguerite Duras A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Camille Paglia American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ba Jin The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Bhagat Singh 'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...Western Civilization began to expand in 976....The economic expansion was achieved chiefly by specialization and exchange... commercialization.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Boris Becker A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Ben Jonson A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • A. D. Hope Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    Imperial Adam (l. 25-28)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • Albert Hofmann After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
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  • Bram Stoker And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Caroline Knapp Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Vaclav Havel As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Maya Angelou At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bob Balaban But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Barry Levinson Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Park Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Carol Berg For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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