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A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the e...

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My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals desc...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has h...

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Joyce Carol OatesThe Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I ...

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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as ca...

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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right...

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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good ...

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People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that wa...

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Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world...

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A good beginning makes a good end.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so ma...

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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the othe...

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,...

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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can alwa...

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What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's...

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When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, ci...

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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt n...

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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing ...

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Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, a...

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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no lon...

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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...

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I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...

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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leave...

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning...

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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything r...

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It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm j...

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The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...

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The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a na...

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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is ...

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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of -...

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My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th annivers...

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The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our da...

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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...

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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect ...

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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democr...

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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationsh...

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Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, ...

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I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career...

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A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

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Amy TanThe Bonesetter's Daughter

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid ec...

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a...

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The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a t...

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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them ...

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What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dive...

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Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at...

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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 p...

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Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, exp...

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I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly diffe...

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There was certainly plenty to watch and listen to. The tree which Digory had noticed was now a full-...

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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis...

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I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. ...

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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human...

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I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes an...

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...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in ...

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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition...

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Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again...

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But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite anothe...

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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our sto...

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always...

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Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

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Eric HofferThe Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from th...

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For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...

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What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...

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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...

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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary...

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We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living pa...

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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where...

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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughl...

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever begin...

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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, i...

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And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he w...

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Franz KafkaThe Penal Colony and Other Stories

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I wi...

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When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new re...

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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as cl...

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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows ...

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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...

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What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of ...

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