Quotes with beginning

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  • Indira Gandhi Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
    Indira Gandhi
    Indian stateswoman (1917 - 1984)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • John Ruskin Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Lord George Byron My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bill Bryson My wife recently put me on a diet after suggesting (a little unkindly, if you ask me), that I was beginning to look like something Richard Branson would try to get airborne.
    Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Emma Goldman No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bob Barr Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Winston Churchill Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
    Speech november 1942
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Eric Hoffer Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Billy Parish Our personal networks, although often small at the beginning, can still be the best place to start when we want to get a job that makes a difference or take our ideas to the next level.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Herbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Steven Spielberg People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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