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  • Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
  • When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
  • My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
  • Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
  • Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?
  • You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
  • I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
  • Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
  • Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
  • It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
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  • W. H. Auden ''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • David Cronenberg All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Marie Beyon Ray Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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  • Stephen R. Covey Begin with the end in mind.
    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Henry Ford Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bayard Taylor Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • W. Clement Stone I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Carl Sandburg If she [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
    On America, in Remembrance Rock (1948)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Epictetus It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Laurence Sterne Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • W. M. Lewis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
    W. M. Lewis
     
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  • Candice S. Miller Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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  • Richard Bach ''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Ben Jonson 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ivan Turgenev ... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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