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  • Richard Condon The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.
    Richard Condon
    American writer (1915 - 1996)
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  • Jean Cocteau The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • James Baldwin The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • William James The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Raymond Chandler The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • James Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Milan Kundera The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bill Clinton The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
    Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Harvey Mackay The sale begins when the customer says yes.
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  • H.G. Wells The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Henry Miller The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Beckett The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Paul Klee The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • William Butler Yeats Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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