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  • Abdolkarim Soroush We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Billy Joel We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning.
    We Didnt Start the Fire (1989)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Kofi Annan We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
    (2004)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Babbitt We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bill Maris We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Alice Walker We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Ben Carson We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Mark Twain We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Gibbard We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Butch Trucks We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Arthur Hiller We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Ben Elton We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Carrie P. Meek We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ben Carson What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Flores What I'd like to see Donald Trump do is start talking about his vision for leading the country and the policies that he would propose that would help hardworking American families who have struggled through the last few years and then also to differentiate himself from Hillary Clinton.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Barry Diller What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Brenda Lee When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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