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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • James Thurber I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Abigail Adams I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bill Hybels I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Javan I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunset
    Javan
     
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  • Barbara Cartland I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Warren Mitchell I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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  • Andrew Carnegie I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Anthony Wayne I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Lewis Carroll I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Harper Lee I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Anne Tyler 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.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Francis Bacon If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Carson If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
    Mere Christianity
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Mohsin Hamid If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • David Viscott If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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