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  • Blake Mycoskie People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Philip Larkin Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me). Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Bernard Malamud She entered his dreams sane and left mad. She began with words of love and ended with sounds that frightened him.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Jean Cocteau Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Ben Shahn Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bruce Lee Soon my fists began to swell from hitting his hard head. Right then I realized Wing Chun was not too practical and began to alter my way of fighting.
    Bruce Lee in Black Belt magazine (October 1976)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Buck Owens That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Ba Jin The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Black Kettle The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Ben Bernanke The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant 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.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Buffalo Bill The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
    The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Barry Commoner The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Betty Grable The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Aaron C. Brown 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.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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